Six on Schools: The barriers keeping immigrant parents from getting involved in their kids' education; “What Do You Do On The First Day Of School?”; NYS Religious Schools Must Be Made to Obey the Law; Public schools are ‘ripping parents off’ with cla
panaritisp
|
|
|
Teaching Learning Technology
290 Hagedorn Hall / 119 Hofstra University / Hempstead, NY 11549
(P) 516-463-5853 (F) 516-463-6196
|
"Big Apple parents are getting a crash course in cutthroat capitalism at their kid’s schools, which are strong-arming them into buying supplies at sky-high prices to pad the bottom line.
The money-making scheme is generating windfall profits — tens of thousands of dollars citywide that’s getting tucked away in school slush funds, The Post has found.
At least 10 NYC schools’s have worked out a private deal with a small Chicago-based business, Yubbler, to sell supplies to parents — and split the profits with the PTA or school.
The company offers packages of schoolhouse basics — notebooks, crayons, paper and more — at inflated prices, in some cases up to double what stores and online retailers charge, The Post found.
But excess supplies are apparently hoarded in closets and storerooms, creating an artificial shortage.
Two Upper West Side schools — PS 333 Manhattan School for Children and PS 166 The Richard Rodgers School of Arts & Technology — amassed so many staples that bagfuls of new or unused books and crayons were found in the trash recently outside both schools."
|
|
|
- A lesson : Self Portrait with Favorite Things :
"Brainstorm and record favorite things of your students on a board or chart paper.
You can include things like, favorite superhero, book, sport, movie, fruit, game, musician, artist, animal and so on..."
(lessonplanspage.com)
- Classroom Introductions - a lesson plan (teachervision.fen)
Objectives :
- Students will know you better.
- Students will be welcomed to your class and given an idea of what they will be doing during the year.
- Students share some personal information about themselves orally.
- Students will learn about each others' interests and families.
|
- - Lesson plans (teachervision.fen.com)
Poems :
- Back to School Poems (tooter4kids)
- Bio Poem Handout - (teachervision.fen)
"Getting to know each other through a poetry writing activity." - Getting-to-Know-You List Poem (educationworld) :
"Students construct and illustrate a list poem that expresses personal likes and dislikes."
Scavenger Hunts :
- Back-to-School Scavenger Hunt - (enchantedlearning)
"In this activitiy, each student fill out a personal questionnaire,
then they all go on a scavenger hunt looking for information about each other."
|
Songs :
Deftones - Back To School (Mini Maggit)
- Song (YouTube) + LYRICS (azlyrics.com)Apple Pickin' Time- a song about things we do in the Fall (YouTube)
We're Going To Be Friends sung by The White Stripes
(n° 9) - (whitestripes.net)
"Fall is here, hear the yell
back to school, ring the bell
brand new shoes, walking blues
climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends..."
- with the VIDEO (You Tube)
and An activity
sent by Sylvie Bertrand (Ac. Nantes)- We're going to be friends. A Song by the White Stripes
"Look at the video and listen to the song.
Now fill in the gaps..."Quia - "We're going to be friends". A Song by the White Stripes
<IMG SRC="/files/quia/users/rmaufroid/School-Bus.jpg"> <Img SRC="/files/quia/users/rmaufroid/plain750.jpg"> <s...
Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
Music and Songs about : Back To School (preschooleducation)
- School Songs
Videos :
"Carpe diem. Seize the day." - Dead Poets Society
"Mr Keating makes his students leave their classroom for his first class with them, and so tells them that they should "seize the day" - live life, before you eventually die." (YouTube)
| |||||||||||||||||
Supercut: TV's First Days of School
| Finding Nemo: First Day of school
| ||||||||||||||||
Sesame Street - The Count's First Day of School
(YouTube) | |||||||||||||||||
Brainpop : Back-to-school page
with an interactive quiz, lesson plans, graphic organizers and an animated movie.
(brainpop.com)
Suggested activity for the beginning of the year by Paola SANCHEZ (Mexico) :
"The first day of class, I show my students the following video to raise awareness in them about the importance of education
in the 21st century world :Did you know
Did You Know 2.0
An official update to the original "Shift Happens" video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update...
(YouTube)
After they watch the video, they have to tell me five facts they considered as the most interesting...
The language is very simple and has lots of visual support."
