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Great possible choices for field trips for different curriculms.

Welcome to the New Jersey Field Trip and Enrichment Guide, compiled by NJ Kids! Whether you are a teacher planning a school field trip, a scout leader organizing an outing, a PTO president designing a fundraiser, or a parent searching for a weekend adventure - don't look any further!

Many children are over-scheduled and don't have  enough time time to have free-play or be creative on their own.

See our life-skills checklists for each age and stage of your child's development. Very informative and a favorite topic of mine..

You can sign up for a tour inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and meet the scientists and engineers working on some of our nation's space programs.

Teachers can be more creative by being open to new ideas, thinking outside the box, working with their strengths, etc.

I thought this was a timely article with our school's impending move to the cloud. Research Total IT cloud infrastructure spending will grow 21 percent over the course of 2015 to reach $32 billion in the United States, or about a third of all IT infrastructure spending, according to a new forecast from International Data Corp. (IDC).

It's called "the summer brain drain" because during those long, hot months away from school, kids supposedly forget a lot of what they had learned in class. Research, however, tells a more nuanced story: Some learning is lost among some groups, and others gain. What do you guys think?? Does "Summer Brain Drain" truly exist or is it just a myth??

Homework has a branding problem. Or, to be a little less pointy-headed about it, everybody hates homework. Scan through the parenting shelves, and the frustration is palpable: " The Case Against Homework," " The Homework Trap," " The End of Homework." *****Very Interesting points*****

The Language of Learning: Teaching Students Core Thinking, Listening, and Speaking Skills By Margaret Berry Wilson (Responsive Classroom, 2014 - Learn more) Students enter our school doors with a vision of themselves as learners, filled with hopes and dreams for learning...With them, they bring an innate curiosity and a thirst

This is a great article on how educators can use the Internet to access free professional development in online spaces.

A blog post about the Shadow Puppet Edu iTunes app. It is free and you can create videos with up to 100 images and up to 30 minutes long.

Sign up to be chosen as one of 1000 schools across the globe to participate in the Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools with topics covering comping and weather - for ages 11 and up. Free!

"TpT Teacher-Authors have come together once again to bring you the best tried-and-true technology integration tips. The tips you find here will help you incorporate technology into learning in meaningful ways and manage the technology you have in your classroom to keep technology activities and centers running smoothly. Transform your classroom into a 21st century classroom where students are motivated and excited to learn and explore the world around them in new ways. "

"Join teachers, administrators and parents for a FREE day of learning. EDnado is about promoting innovation and inspiring educators to try new things in their classrooms. At EDnado, educators from Monmouth County and beyond will be able to learn and share what WORKS in their schools. FREE breakfast and lunch will be provided. Get ready, because here at EDnado, we are taking education by storm!" May 25, 2015

Today I attended a Zaner-Bloser sponsored workshop on Spelling and Word Study for Literacy with research presented by J. Richard Gentry, Ph.D., who is key to Zaner's Spelling Program. Please look at the link and be sure to read his replies to questions on pages 10-14 - interesting material...

Duolingo provides a fun way to practice Spanish or more than 20 other foreign languages.

Did you know that Spanish is the third most used language on the Internet, after English and Mandarin Chinese? Check out Spanishdict.com to learn more fun trivia about the Spanish language! Great tool for translating words and verb conjugation.

In an increasingly global economy, New Jersey is right to require world language instruction.