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Problem and Solution (with the book Jumanji)

Posted by Smiley Girl Schooling on July 24, 2023

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It's All in How You Make It: Maker Stations- at HOME???

Posted by Smiley Girl Schooling on July 17, 2023

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Old School Saturdays - 80s Flashback

Posted by Smiley Girl Schooling on July 15, 2023

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Old School Saturdays - 80s Flashback

Old School Saturdays DISCLAIMER- This post is not to invoke a debate about screen time, but a way to incorporate screen time as a family time. 😊. Also, this is what we try to do MOST Saturdays. Sometimes we have interruptions to our weekly tradition, but we do this more often than not! My husband and I both were children of the 1980s/1990s. We grew up in a time of no streaming services, commercials, and if you didn't have satellite or cable (because very few did) you didn't get to watch cartoons on demand. You might have some VHS tapes of shows (usually recorded off of television), but you also had to share the television with the rest of the household. We realized early on when we had our daughter that she was growing up with a total different experience than we did in regards to media. Now don't get me wrong, I know every generation tends to have this experience with ever increasing technology, but we realized some of the experiences w...

It's All in How You Make It: Maker Stations- at HOME???

It's All in How You Make It: Maker Stations - at HOME???? Our daughter teaching us how to play a game she created from items in her maker station. For about half of my public school career, I worked as a library media specialist. One of the major buzz words in all of my trainings and in-services at that time was "maker stations". If you haven't had much experience in library situations or library programs, this may be a new term for you. A maker station is basically an area of materials for students to create or make something. Sometimes maker stations are very controlled and provide materials for a specific goal (like make a musical instrument) while other maker stations are very open-ended. When I began homeschooling my daughter, I decided to implement a maker station in our house! This sounds like a crazy idea for including at home, but it has been a major success! One of the things about maker stations is to have items to make somethin...

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