Have you tried cooking in your special education classroom yet? If not, you are missing out on so many essential LIFE SKILLS that your students need to learn! Cooking was always one of my favorite things to work on when I was in the classroom. Now I have made it my mission to create simple resources that other special educators can use for cooking in their classroom. Read to find out 5 important skills that cooking in special education promotes. 5 important skills that cooking promotes (Check out #5!) You might be thinking to yourself, I don’t have TIME in my schedule to cook at school. I completely understand-special educators wear many hats and are busy! However, I PROMISE if...
“A single Super Bowl commercial can change our vocabulary,” wrote Bernice Kanner in “The Super Bowl of Advertising: How the Commercials Won the Game” in 2003. “Whassup?!” The late, prolific ad journalist could’ve chosen no better example of Big Game vernacular to prove her point. Introduced in an instant-canon 2000 Budweiser Super Bowl ad, “whassup” went viral before we even knew what viral was. “It was soon heard everywhere — muttered by DJs, on websites, in spoofs, in the news,” wrote Kanner. The term became a generational byword for friendship and camaraderie, and the heavily lauded Super Bowl ad that immortalized it became yet another glittering jewel in the King of Beers’ marketing crown. At this point, there are quite...
Strategies to take down the N1 final boss. Way back in 2009 I took my first stab at the highest level Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), which was Level 1 back then and is now “N1.” And I failed. I never tried again, until last year. This time around, I was determined to pass. After six months of studying, a hectic test day, and waiting weeks for the results, this came in the mail. ▼ I’d passed! Crushing the reading comprehension section with a perfect score, knocking out vocabulary/grammar, and… well, passing listening. There are a multitude of JLPT strategy guides out there, but I’d like to share my experience in how I prepared for the test, since I feel like...
Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People, Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland, Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties, and Sarah Gran’s The Book of the Most Precious Substance all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * Fiction 1. Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth) 6 Rave • 8 Positive Read an excerpt from Very Cold People here “Best known as a memoirist and essayist, Manguso also writes poetry, and this is apparent in her fiction. Though dealing with life’s ugly, messy truths, her writing is compact and beautiful … Manguso is terribly poignant on little Ruthie’s faith in a maternal love that isn’t really there, and her dawning comprehension of...
Vendor: Apologia Type: Price: 22.79 Zoology 3 Notebooking Journal for use with Exploring Creation with Zoology 3 You Don't Need This Book Really! However, for some of you, it may be the most useful science supplement you can buy, and that is why we are excited to offer it. How the Young Explorer Series Uses Notebooks The Young Explorer Series is our favorite science program for young scientists, and with good reason. The Charlotte Mason approach provides lots of information in a readable, engaging format. Lessons are designed to be spread over multiple weeks, with significant portions devoted to hands-on experiments and to notebook keeping. Notebook Keeping Explained Notebook keeping is simply a system for assisting your child to document...
