These sandwiches, wraps, bento boxes, hot lunches are all kid-approved lunch ideas that are perfect for middle school and beyond.
Writing makes me happy, and maybe I can use this venue to help share some cool ideas and discoveries as we wend our way along this journey. I welcome you in. Lose the shoes. Stay as long as you’d like. FeaturedCategories getting debt free, Middle Age life, UncategorizedTags FiRe, ...
they do not help us stay mentally healthy. Now layer on the challenges of parenting young kids during this time. Children are not in school. Young children are
Cantonese culture is close to my heart. Just out of high school I moved to Hong Kong and spent one and a half years there. Over the years I have traveled to Hong Kong and Guangzhou on several occasions. In fact, I learned Cantonese before I ever learned Mandarin. Students often ask me...
I love my school. My Cousin My cousin is only five years old. She comes to my house every weekend. We like her very much. Though she is very young she has ideas of her own. She says she wants to invite a fairy to help my mother to clean the kitchen. She prefers to be a ...
To that end, I generally have 15 ideas in the back of my mind at any one time, and have lessons prepped for Plan A, ready to change to Plan B, or C, or D, when I walk in, ok sprint in: I tend to run late. (There should be a Family Feud episode between teachers who run ...
When I was in high school, I saw a touring exhibit of plaster casts that had been made of actual inhabitants of the city during their final moments – in the poses they struck upon their deaths. Those frozen figures were both distant to me and yet very real all at the same time. ...
From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I 11 a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a 12 moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of 13 for the coming test or sporti...
And the students in Corrie Rosetti's classes at Lincoln Middle School in Clarkston, Washington, had some great ideas too! "I think school would be a lot better if they had more funds for visual aids and props," wrote Gaylene C., an eighth-grader at Lincoln. "People learn more effective...
The school year might have to wait. There is a bigger goal. And sometimes you might have to remind the “systems” of that bigger goal. (And sometimes someone reminds you. Like when I moan to the 12-year-old that I had not anticipated the amount of time it would require of me ...