By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Follow us on Instagram for more fun ideas for kids! Plaeful Printables offer fun learn and play preschool printables used for teaching practical life skills as well as educational concepts. Colorful printables are an excellent way to inject a little extra color and playfulness into your child’s day! Plaeful Printables was created to provide families with fun and interactive learning activities that they can do together at home. Many of you know me as the founder of this creative website for kids. Aside from that, I’m a mother of three and have been creating and sharing...
A concrete plinth marking ground zero of the first Totem atomic test in South Australia in 1953. Photo: Andrew BurdenThe name Emu Field does not have the same resonance as Maralinga in Australian history. It is usually a footnote to the much larger atomic test site in South Australia. However, the weapons testing that took place in October 1953 at Emu Field, part of SA’s Woomera Prohibited Area, was at least as damaging as what came three years later at Maralinga. The Emu Field tests, known as Operation Totem, were an uncontrolled experiment on human populations unleashing a particularly mysterious and dangerous phenomenon – known as “black mist” – which is still being debated. Operation Totem involved two “mushroom cloud”...
We have just wrapped up another fruitful year of homeschooling. My plans for Peter worked well, but of course, we all grew and changed throughout the year (including me) and so adjustments were made. I'm going to recap mostly what we did accomplish, but you can check out my original plans to compare all the things that we didn't get too this year!Daily Checklist / Flexible Timetable for Student in Form IIAThis schedule worked pretty well as originally planned. After Christmas, we made some changes and let a few things go while adding some others, which I'll discuss below. Peter used his free time to annotate a map with family-friendly hiking spots, to take an online financial literacy course, to read...
In Holly Goddard Jones’s second collection of short fiction, Antipodes (University of Iowa Press), readers will find mysteries both large and small: a widening abyss, a sudden hunger for dirt, a figure haunting multiple video games, the contentment of a man who seems to have lost everything. The characters encountering these mysteries seem so normal that they could be your neighbors, your friends—even you. In the title story, the narrator is, on the one hand, the Historian of a temple guarding an abyss, but on the other, a mother struggling to get her toddler to daycare on time. In “Visitation,” a character discovers a bizarre creature in his video games while riding out the COVID pandemic at his parents’ house,...
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Years ago when I discussed strategy with a Disney Cruise leader, they told me that people tend to remember how an experience starts and how it ends. Therefore, they designed events with intentionality, particularly on the first day and the last night. So, I adopted this approach in my own classroom and so has today's guest fourth-grade teacher, Alana Stanton. Over the last seventeen years, Alana has created some traditions in her classroom and today she shares them. Get ready to end the school year in a memorable and fun way for your students (and you!) Advancement Courses - Podcast Sponsor Advancement Courses is my preferred professional...
