7:00 Game Directions

Please post the directions for your learning game here. Then we can all read each others directions and save paper at the same time! Have a wonderful winter break and a happy new semester.

1:00 Directions for Games

Please post the directions to your learning game here. This way we're all able to read each other's directions and save paper at the same time! Have a wonderful winter break and a happy new semester.

Flexible Teaching-7:00 Class

The Swine Flu has hit your classroom. Out of 23 students only 10 are in attendance due to the flu. As a classroom teacher what will you do? With over 1/2 of your classroom absent you have been told not to proceed in each subject area as usual because so many children will be behind when they return. Write 1 alternative plan for any subject area that you could do with the 10 students who are in attendance. In addition, write what precautions you would take to protect yourself and your students from contracting the H1N1 flu.

Flexible Teaching-1:00 Class

The Swine Flu has hit your classroom. Out of 23 students only 10 are in attendance due to the flu. As a classroom teacher what will you do? With over 1/2 of your classroom absent you have been told not to proceed in each subject area as usual because so many children will be behind when they return. Write 1 alternative plan for any subject area that you could do with the 10 students who are in attendance. In addition, write what precautions you would take to protect yourself and your students from contracting the H1N1 flu.

Fall 2009 Mental Health Books 7:00 Class

Choose your favorite children's book from the Mental Health category. Write the title of the book, the author and a brief description of the book. Add to your description why you like the book. After everyone in class adds their favorite book, we'll have a wonderful book list!

Fall 2009 Mental Health Books 1:00 Class

Choose your favorite children's book from the Mental Health category. Write the title of the book, the author and a brief description of the book. Add to your description why you like the book. After everyone in class adds their favorite book, we'll have a wonderful book list!

7:00 Class Favorite Mental Health Book

Choose you favorite children's book on the topic of mental health. In your comment include the title, author and brief description of this book. We will all then have a great list of children's books on the topic of mental health!

1:00 Class Favorite Mental Health Books

Choose your favorite children's book on the topic of mental health. In your comment include the title, author and brief description of this book. We will all then have a great book list on the topic of mental health!

Childhood Obesity

For the first time, an annual report from Trust for America's Health included state-by-state figures on childhood obesity, showing that Washington, D.C., was first with 22.8 percent of its children overweight. Missouri ranked 15th in this report. Jim Marks, a senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Founndation, which sponsored the study, said, "(the report) is a devastating indictment". "The nation is in the middle of a public health crisis that is deteriorating rapidly, and we are treating it like an inconvenience". Marks also stated, "These children could be the first generation to live sicker and die younger than their parents".

Knowing this information, what do you think we as teachers of elementary children can do in the classroom? Is there anything that could be done by teachers to inform parents? Please comment.