November 8th is National Parents as Teachers Day. It is a program, started in Missouri and is now all over the country, to help parents prepare children for school. Their mission is to promote the optimal early development, learning and health of children by supporting and engaging their families and caregivers. This program can thenContinue reading “November 8 “Parents are teachers””
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September 25 “Sometimes you have to just let it all out”
September 25th is World Pharmacist Day. To recognise this day, I have several books. First is a signed “A Sketch of Medicine and Pharmacy” by the S.E. Massengill Corporation, published 1943. The subtitle is “and a View of Its Progress by the Massengill Family from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century. This book gives aContinue reading “September 25 “Sometimes you have to just let it all out””
February 7 ‘Shhhhh????’
Today is National Read Aloud Day. And we should read out loud. Too many teachers use the following book (at least in practice), “One Hundred Ways to Teach Silent Reading” by Nila Banton Smith, 1925. Nope. Let us look at more: Here is an older book to help us, “The Rational Method in Reading”, by Edward G. Ward, 1896. TheContinue reading “February 7 ‘Shhhhh????’”
January 8 ‘whole world in his hands’
Today is Earth Rotation Day. It is said that the Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. If you were looking at Earth from the North Star, Earth would be spinning counter clockwise. When you visualize the above, you are picturing Earth as a globe, so I am showcasing several books I have on globes. The firstContinue reading “January 8 ‘whole world in his hands’”
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