The Wild Trees - Recommended by Mr. Henington.
This book is amazing! I wanted to climb all the trees at Grady after reading it. I learned a lot about the science of trees while enjoying the story of people who climb the tallest trees in the world.
Parents - screen this book before you let you child read it to make sure that it matches your outlook.
The Secret House - Recommended by Mr. Henington.
The best science book I've found. Reaching across broad themes of science it is perfect for adults and teenagers. Let's put it this way: if you read this book, you will never eat mashed potatoes at Luby's again ...or touch anything in a public restroom, ... or look at lightning the same way, etc. My summer students couldn't put this one down.
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Recommended web links from students, parents and teachers. For me to post you link, I need a web review of the site based upon the help it will give to our discovery of the world. This is about information. Send me an e-mail with the link and review. You are publishing on the web so spelling, grammar and punctuation matter. Be aware that I am interested only in your links to my course material.
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We are building a new Grady campus! Your parents and teachers are discussing a new wing with room for 600 students. I would love to see what you could design. I have included a link to a Grady Map without the T-buildings. Try to fit your design into the space, leaving room for the football/soccer field. Before you start look at the "Language of School Design" booklet to get some ideas about how schools reflect research into learning. Go for it! What should your school look like? Make sure that you let me see what you come up with.
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To back up what I do in the classroom I would love for you to review the research findings supporting my classroom structure. If I am doing something that doesn't work for your child - let's talk. I learn something every time I talk with a parent that helps me qualify the strategy so that WE can formulate success. Take a look at the findings and synthesis below and let me know what you think.
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Homework is given every day even over holidays. Much of the homework requires the Our World Today textbook which your child should bring home and keep at home until the end of the year. Homework equals 10% of the course grade. I will take late homework at any point until the cutoff date when the six week grade is due. Progress reports, however, are a status check and reflect missing homework as "50's". Work can still be made up, but if it is not this is the grade that will stick.
I have moved my homework assignments to our 6th Grade team website. Just click the link to get there or the link in the directory at left.
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A hobby that I include as a fun extension of my course outside the classroom. Letterboxing came to the United States in 1996, with the publication in the Smithsonian magazine of an article about this very old hobby in the United Kingdom. Letterboxers carve stamps and hide them around the world, leaving clues online at sites like Letterboxing North America. I have lots of boxes hidden. See if you can find them and "stamp in".
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This page is designed to keep parents up with the latest research findings in the area of brain research. One website, Dr. Kathy Nunley's is particularly useful as a clearinghouse for information. Another useful link is the News from the Neurosciences link at the New Horizons Learning web page. A serious subdivided linking page is at Brainresearch.org which is a good launch pad for inquiries about specific brain function.
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Included in this section are tools that we use in our class to better analyze and understand the ideas and issues of the cultures we are exploring. Other useful tools are included as well.
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