As a creative brain, I am always striving to make connections so I love word play! Bonus points if you spot all my cheesy examples within the post. Analogies, Metaphors, and puns-oh my! Figurative language is the spice of…
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In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the week of September 15th Hispanic Heritage Week. It remained as such for almost 40 years until President George W. Bush changed it to span September 15th-October 15th ! There are tons…
This post was inspired from some insensitive and hurtful comments made by a student in one of the classes I taught in 2015-2016. I really went strong on to cultural diversity mission and sharing more about Teaching Tolerance, one…
Well, I put off ending The Civil War with my 5th graders as long as I could. I think we are supposed to be done with Reconstruction by now. Oops. I wish our curriculum was The Civil War-WWII,…