Happy International Peace Day! If we could turn back the hands of time to September 10, 2001, and manage to have Barrack Obama and Osama Bin Laden sit down at a PEACE Table together, what might they have said to one another? Well, if you had joined Edutopia guests yesterday in my classroom, you would have caught a [...]
Friday, September 16th, was a busy, fun day in fifth grade at UTES. Our Little Longhorn leaders performed the Preamble through posters for Constitution Day, and also reenacted the events of dies y seis de septiembre when Father Miguel Hidalgo rallied a revolution in Dolores, Mexico – Viva Mexico! I will let my students speak [...]
What do you get when you combine kids, social-emotional learning,and lots of social studies lessons and integrated literacy? I’ll tell you what you get. You get life-long learners and servant leaders. This year I’ve had the pleasure of seeing my former students come and volunteer their time in my classroom before school started in August, [...]
Thanks to very generous donors, our Little Longhorns have had the privelege of spending 3 days and 2 nights at Outdoor School in Marble Falls, Texas for the past 5 years. We just returned from our annual trip and, as usual, had the time of our lives. Our 5th graders were able to build independence and [...]