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100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain

October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography   That’s all I have to say today.  It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the […]

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100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate

October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55   (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed […]

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100 Day Project – Day 34 – Gratefulness

October 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 34 – Gratefulness · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Work

100 Day Project – Day 34 – 8:10 p.m. ‘There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.’ Frederico Fellini Film Director A beautiful day today — glorious sun, a not so glorious autumn color due to so much rain, good smells and too much food at the […]

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100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play

October 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Play

The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults!  Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and […]

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100 Day Project – Day 31 – Llama llama!

October 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 31 – Llama llama! · 100 Days Project, Books, Children, College students, Fundraiser, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Website of the Week, Work

100 Day Project – Day 31 – 8:57 p.m. Today I read Llama Llama Red Pajama – not once – but twice!   Did you?  As part of JumpStart’s Read for the Record Program, I enjoyed reading the book to a group of early childhood pre-service teachers, and a group of women who donated books and […]

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