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Monday, February 29, 2016
Friday, October 9, 2015
Special BONUS: Silly Songs Stuck (in my head)
Do you know the Wishy Washy Washerwoman song? It is a silly song I learned years and years (and years) ago at Girl Scout Camp. (I just did the math, it has been almost 20 years since I was a camper!!!)
Anyway, I had only part of the song stuck in my head, just the begining, "Waaaaaaaaay down in the valley, where nobody goes, there's a Wishy Washy Washerwoman washing her clothes. . . " I couldn't recall the rest! SO, I did what any former Scout would do, and I googled it!
Whereupon, I found this GEM performed by male teachers!! This is just totally awesome!
They did skip my favorite verse, "Waaaaaaaaay down in the valley, where nobody goes, there's a Wishy Washy Washerwoman picking her nose. She goes Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, that's how the Washerwoman pi-cks her nose!" (I learned it that way - without forcing the "wishy-washy" part on the last line.)
The Other song stuck in my head lately is the Boots Song/My Boots/Whatever you want to call it!
I couldn't find anything that wasn't Dora the Explorer related when I searched for it, so I recorded it just for you!
Anyway, I had only part of the song stuck in my head, just the begining, "Waaaaaaaaay down in the valley, where nobody goes, there's a Wishy Washy Washerwoman washing her clothes. . . " I couldn't recall the rest! SO, I did what any former Scout would do, and I googled it!
Whereupon, I found this GEM performed by male teachers!! This is just totally awesome!
(Start around 1:26 if you want to skip the intro)
They did skip my favorite verse, "Waaaaaaaaay down in the valley, where nobody goes, there's a Wishy Washy Washerwoman picking her nose. She goes Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, Pick-Flick, that's how the Washerwoman pi-cks her nose!" (I learned it that way - without forcing the "wishy-washy" part on the last line.)
The Other song stuck in my head lately is the Boots Song/My Boots/Whatever you want to call it!
Monday, September 14, 2015
Not your typical PowerPoint
I promised that I would share my PowerPoint Presentation. So here are the slides:
Here is the Video that is embedded into the PowerPoint (the green square)
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| Click this Slide to follow the Hyperlink from the Presentation. |
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| We had to say what grade we'd like to teach and the subject we'd like to base our big project on. |
Saturday, September 12, 2015
My Views on Educational Technology
This post was specifically made to include on my PowerPoint Presentation for my Media & Technology class. I love using technology, both personally, and in the classroom. That being said, I think students also know how to get along without technology. I think I'd like to do an "Unplugged!" unit/week/specific days in my classroom.
NOTE: The Reading Rainbow Skybrary is what I was trying to think of in the video!
NOTE: The Reading Rainbow Skybrary is what I was trying to think of in the video!
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Sing-a-long Vlog Entry
Intro
Fried Ham
10 Brown Bottles
Grand Old Duke of York
Five Little Hotdogs
Humpty Dumpty - The Nursery Rhyme Rap
The Princess Pat
(Loosely based on the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry regiment's song).
I learned it as "Ragabamboo," (as performed in the song) however the original phrase was "Ric-A-Dam-Doo" which means "Cloth
of Thy Mother" in Gaelic. In the video I said WWII, it was WWI, and you can learn more about "Princess Pat" and the Regiment here.
The Little Green Frog
The Titanic Song
The Button Factory
Singing in the Rain. . . Wait, a minute
This song features cumulative actions.
It Only Takes a Spark
Saturday, March 15, 2014
A New [Musical] Video Post!
I can't find my friend's explanation for why we teach the recorder.
It seems to have been consumed by the book of faces. :(
But I did find this:
It seems to have been consumed by the book of faces. :(
But I did find this:
And here is my first Recorder Solo since 5th grade:
And for your musical enjoyment,
Jimmy Fallon, Carly Rae Jepsen, and The Roots
performing "Call Me Maybe"
on a set of Classroom Instruments and a Toy Xylophone
By the way, I got to play a glockenspiel in class yesterday.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Jourmal Prompt # 5
"We teach to think not by giving lessons in thinking, but by giving experiences in which thought is required."
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
FREEDOM
Okay, so the reason I was talking about Freedom in my previous post, is because My family was attending a Pesach (Passover) Seder at a friend's house and she asked us to bring something representing "Freedom." Other Families had things like: "Slavery," "Bitterness," "Thanks," or "Praise."
So, my family created this video:
So, my family created this video:
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Some Cool things I've found!
- An Awesome Quote!
― G.K. Chesterton
- Parkour
I recently learned about his "new" activity --that toddlers have been doing for eons.
- International TableTop Day!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Journal Prompt #4
In regards to the Creativity Project, What phase of the creativity process are you in? How do you plan to move to the next phase?
Originally, I was going to do a Tribute to Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers. Of the Neighborhood. Friend to Mr. McFeeley. Owner of the Trolley that travels into the Land of Make Believe. While thinking about this project I re-stumbled across this awesome video remix of Mister Rogers:
I was going to create a few different pieces of art in Tribute to his genius. I was thinking I might make a Trolley out of Legos, sculpt Daniel and Owl's Tree and maybe make a PicturePicture-esque collage of other Mister Roger's belongings (traffic Light, Fish, sweater, shoes, etc.).
But, after talking with members of my group, most of whom said "I'm going to do some kind of 3D collage about this person." I am going back to square one.
I am leaning towards being inspired by Sir Ken Robinson and going for something that inspires creativity in children. So, I am back to Defining the Problem, when I was kind of hanging out in Incubation.
Originally, I was going to do a Tribute to Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers. Of the Neighborhood. Friend to Mr. McFeeley. Owner of the Trolley that travels into the Land of Make Believe. While thinking about this project I re-stumbled across this awesome video remix of Mister Rogers:
But, after talking with members of my group, most of whom said "I'm going to do some kind of 3D collage about this person." I am going back to square one.
I am leaning towards being inspired by Sir Ken Robinson and going for something that inspires creativity in children. So, I am back to Defining the Problem, when I was kind of hanging out in Incubation.
Sir Ken Robinson - Do Schools Kill Creativity?
I love when he says that "kids are willing to take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go."
He then shares a great quote: "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
Sir Ken says "we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it."
I love his anecdotes about Shakespeare having been in someone's English class. "Try harder."
Hierarchy of Subjects across the World:
Top - Math & Languages
Middle - Humanities (Social Studies & Science)
Bottom - Arts
Within Arts
Top - Art & Music
Bottom - Drama & Dance
Why don't we spend as much time teaching Dance as we do teaching Math? Children dance all the time if they're allowed to. We all have bodies! Unless I missed a memo?"
As children grow up we start to teach them from the waist up, and then we focus on their heads, and slightly to one side. He concludes that the main goal of our Education systems are to create . . .University Professors.
Academic Ability is what is valued in school and children are steered away from art, and music and creative endeavors. Now we have kids with college degrees heading home to play video games because a college degree isn't worth anything anymore.
Yet Human intellegince is DIVERSE.
We think about things the way we experience them:
Visually
In Sound
Kinestethically
In Abstract Terms
Movement
Human Intelligence is Dynamic
Interactive
Human Intelligence is Distinct
I agree with his ideas for reorganizing the way our education system to encourage creativity in children rather than discouraging it. It is one of my goals as a teacher, to include as many ways for children to learn and grow and express themselves and prove what they have learned. While encouraging them to write neatly and spell words correctly and use their brains to do math and understand what good citizenship really is.
Journal Prompt #3
How do you think your Play Personality will effect your future career?
I am planning on becoming an Elementary School Teacher. I think the fact that I can't pick single Play Personality is actually an asset when it comes to my chosen profession.
I need to be able to be the Director to plan and organize my room and set a routine.
I need to be an Explorer to help my students discover as much about their world as they can.
I need to be a Competitor to teach them how to be good sports and to challenge them to beat the standardized tests that are crammed down their throats.
I need to be an Artist/Creator to make my classroom their home for 9 months and to make my lessons interesting and innovative.
I need to be a Storyteller to get them hooked into Reading and Writing. (And good Story Problem solvers!)
I need to be the Kinesthete when my class is droopy eyed and losing interest. (Maybe it is time for a round of "Crazy Evolution!")
I need to be the Joker when tensions are high or to help a lesson along, and to deal with the unexpected with grace.
I need to be the Collector when it comes to books in my library and rocks in my science center and Knowledge in my brain!
An excellent example of a Joker/Artist-Creator/Storyteller Teacher:
The Darker Side of Play
Notes on Chapter 7
I was going to make a new video, but I can't seem to last ten minutes without coughing for five, sooo, you get this (boring) typed post instead.
Chapter 7, The Darker Side of Play, debates whether play can have an underlying thread of cruelty and evil or if by including those very elements means that it is no longer play. The author states, "When someone is domineering, aggressive, or violent, they are not engaged in true play, no matter what they are doing." He determines that True Play includes a self-handicapping of stronger "players" to make the fun last for all. When someone deliberately tries to hurt someone (physically or psychologically) they are not meeting the criteria for play especially the desire by ALL to continue the activity.
Stuart Brown talks about how no one has fun when a "poor sport" is not playing well with others and how it can ruin the play for everyone involved. "In play, we learn how to deal with life's wins and losses with grace. In the end, we learn to shake hands and let the emotions go, something that is useful in "real" life as well as games. A poor sport can't do so in either arena."
He also discusses "Play Addicts," specifically the screen-addiction that plagues many people in our modern society. His major concern is the sedentary and isolating tendencies exhibited by play that revolves around screens: television, computers, handheld video games, cell phone/tablet games, etc; because real-world human interactions are an essential part of psychological health. The dis-engagement with the natural world prevents development of social nuances that are a big part of maturation in us as a social species. When children are entranced by a TV show, all play stops and the storyline set by the box carries them along for a ride of motionlessness and muteness. Single-player video games equally hog attention and socially isolate the player. Wii and Playstation Kinect are still too new to know if and how much they will "change the game" (pun intended.)
Another concern with screen-based entertainments, is the dis-use of creating things with the hands. So much of human play is through discovering with the hands, part of our genetic nature and a big way our brains develop.
This section was fairly small in the book, but I think it is one of the most important issues with our technological advances. My brother-in-law and I argue about this at every family gathering, I say that kids need to unplug more and play outside and make things and he argues that he is perfectly fine and spent most of his childhood beating Nintendo games and playing on the computer. But he doesn't realize how much physical education he had in school that children do not have now. We (my sisters, brothers-in-law and me) went to school through the late 80s, the 90s and early 2000s. We had a half a day of Kindergarten, which consisted of learning to recognize our name, enumerate, recite our address, know our colors, and lots of gross motor play in the form of group dance/singing, recess, and gym. It included a Rest time and a snack. 1st-4th grade we had a 10-15minute morning recess, a 20 minute lunch recess and either afternoon recess or PE class that was between 30-45minutes, in addition to playing gross-motor classroom games like Silent Ball and 7Up. My sisters and I even had lunch recess through eighth grade!
Currently, I know of many elementary schools where there is one recess per day (usually after lunch) and the Michigan state requirement for Elementary PE is 150 minutes/week (that is 30 minutes/day) and Secondary is 225 minutes/week (45 minutes/day) (http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/Final_SBE_PE_PA_Policy_11_12_405423_7.pdf) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that young people aged 6–17 years participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2008.) I'm not saying that technology is bad. I have a Blog for Pete's Sake!), or that children shouldn't play computer/video games (I am a Tetris Whiz and I can't tell you how many times I have "died of dysentery" on the Oregon Trail! Let alone my amazing music video for Jump in Line when I managed the band Volume Control on Math for the Real World! Or my As-of-this-moment-no-longer-secret obsession with Sushi Cat! But I also work out, and play outside with kids (currently in the snow) and build block towers and crash cars into them (with the kids I watch), and read, read, read! I create artwork and Peg People as gifts or projects.
The above video is a project from my Non-Western Lit Class. The Photo Below is of Peg People I presented as gifts to the Royalty (from 3 Kingdoms) in my Medieval Re-Creation group last summer.
I realized I've digressed from the original topic a bit, but I agree with the author in that when Play becomes an obsession or a compulsion or harmful to others, it is no longer Play. Because Play is fun.
I was going to make a new video, but I can't seem to last ten minutes without coughing for five, sooo, you get this (boring) typed post instead.
Chapter 7, The Darker Side of Play, debates whether play can have an underlying thread of cruelty and evil or if by including those very elements means that it is no longer play. The author states, "When someone is domineering, aggressive, or violent, they are not engaged in true play, no matter what they are doing." He determines that True Play includes a self-handicapping of stronger "players" to make the fun last for all. When someone deliberately tries to hurt someone (physically or psychologically) they are not meeting the criteria for play especially the desire by ALL to continue the activity.
Stuart Brown talks about how no one has fun when a "poor sport" is not playing well with others and how it can ruin the play for everyone involved. "In play, we learn how to deal with life's wins and losses with grace. In the end, we learn to shake hands and let the emotions go, something that is useful in "real" life as well as games. A poor sport can't do so in either arena."
He also discusses "Play Addicts," specifically the screen-addiction that plagues many people in our modern society. His major concern is the sedentary and isolating tendencies exhibited by play that revolves around screens: television, computers, handheld video games, cell phone/tablet games, etc; because real-world human interactions are an essential part of psychological health. The dis-engagement with the natural world prevents development of social nuances that are a big part of maturation in us as a social species. When children are entranced by a TV show, all play stops and the storyline set by the box carries them along for a ride of motionlessness and muteness. Single-player video games equally hog attention and socially isolate the player. Wii and Playstation Kinect are still too new to know if and how much they will "change the game" (pun intended.)
Another concern with screen-based entertainments, is the dis-use of creating things with the hands. So much of human play is through discovering with the hands, part of our genetic nature and a big way our brains develop.
This section was fairly small in the book, but I think it is one of the most important issues with our technological advances. My brother-in-law and I argue about this at every family gathering, I say that kids need to unplug more and play outside and make things and he argues that he is perfectly fine and spent most of his childhood beating Nintendo games and playing on the computer. But he doesn't realize how much physical education he had in school that children do not have now. We (my sisters, brothers-in-law and me) went to school through the late 80s, the 90s and early 2000s. We had a half a day of Kindergarten, which consisted of learning to recognize our name, enumerate, recite our address, know our colors, and lots of gross motor play in the form of group dance/singing, recess, and gym. It included a Rest time and a snack. 1st-4th grade we had a 10-15minute morning recess, a 20 minute lunch recess and either afternoon recess or PE class that was between 30-45minutes, in addition to playing gross-motor classroom games like Silent Ball and 7Up. My sisters and I even had lunch recess through eighth grade!
Currently, I know of many elementary schools where there is one recess per day (usually after lunch) and the Michigan state requirement for Elementary PE is 150 minutes/week (that is 30 minutes/day) and Secondary is 225 minutes/week (45 minutes/day) (http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/Final_SBE_PE_PA_Policy_11_12_405423_7.pdf) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that young people aged 6–17 years participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2008.) I'm not saying that technology is bad. I have a Blog for Pete's Sake!), or that children shouldn't play computer/video games (I am a Tetris Whiz and I can't tell you how many times I have "died of dysentery" on the Oregon Trail! Let alone my amazing music video for Jump in Line when I managed the band Volume Control on Math for the Real World! Or my As-of-this-moment-no-longer-secret obsession with Sushi Cat! But I also work out, and play outside with kids (currently in the snow) and build block towers and crash cars into them (with the kids I watch), and read, read, read! I create artwork and Peg People as gifts or projects.The above video is a project from my Non-Western Lit Class. The Photo Below is of Peg People I presented as gifts to the Royalty (from 3 Kingdoms) in my Medieval Re-Creation group last summer.
I realized I've digressed from the original topic a bit, but I agree with the author in that when Play becomes an obsession or a compulsion or harmful to others, it is no longer Play. Because Play is fun.
Friday, February 22, 2013
My Creation Process
Okay, so I am STILL Sick! Really tired of being Tired!
So, originally I was basically going to "cheat" on this entry. But I changed my mind.
So, originally I was basically going to "cheat" on this entry. But I changed my mind.
We Are Built for Play --Part 2
Play Personalities - I have placed an asterisk next to the ones that are me.
*The Joker - Play revolves around nonsense of some kind. Jokes. Verbal, practical, basic. Basic as in the first humor we learn - blowing raspberries/the Bronx Cheer, silly noises and general baby talk.
*The Kinesthete - People who "need to move in order to think." Frequently Dancers and Athletes. Competition is not their main focus, movement is, but competition is often a way to participate in their favorite activity.
*The Explorer - Another very basic form of play. Exploring the world around us. Exploring can be going to new places; searching for a new feeling or deepening of the familiar, through music, movement, flirtation; or researching a new subject, discovering new experiences and points of view from home.
*The Competitor - Enjoys playing to win. The Dominator. The Terminator. Playing games and keeping score. Solo video games, team sports, active participants or number 1 fans. Being the best is where the fun comes in.
*The Director - Organizers. Party givers. Planners. Love the Power in executing events. Sometimes bossy or manipulative.
*The Collector - The thrill is in having the most, the best, the most interesting collection of objects or experiences.
*The Artist/Creator - Joy is found in making things. Creating art, making something broken work again, decorating a room or a house.
*The Storyteller - Imagination! Performing. Writers. Readers. TV/Movie Buffs.
Okay, so I am a really big combo of all of these! I love to play. I'm not even sure which one is my dominant play personality! I am most willing to let go of being the Kinesthete and the Competitor (except when competing against my sisters, and then it is really hard to not fight to win!) And I'm good at being a Director, but sometimes I hate it.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
We Are Built for Play --Part 1
Chapter 3 Response
Okay, so I lost the connection and it took so long, I have to go to Geography now!
To Be Continued. . .
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