First time away from home....

Here are some ideas to help your little one have a great time at camp... or a college dorm ;-)

• A picture of the family pet in a magnetic frame, perfect to stick up on a locker or a bed frame.
• A bottle of bubbles for lazy afternoons.
• A battery-operated night-light for dark cabins with no outlets.
• A favorite childhood storybook to ward off homesickeness.
• A calendar with stickers to mark off memorable days.
• An empty scrapbook and a polaroid camera or digital camera to capture new adventures.

CRA

Is this program for you?

If you answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, this may be the program you've been looking for:

• Are you interested in developing educational policy and practices to promote social justice?
• Do you want to conduct participatory research at cooperating schools?
• Do you want to develop culturally and linguistically sensitive curriculum in a variety of content areas?
• Do you want to create project-based curriculum that is relevant to the daily lives of the children you teach?
• Do you want to be part of a cohort group of support in a program that provides a challenging curriculum?
• *Do you want to meet the Multiple Subject Credential requirements in 12 months? (and complete the MA in Education requirements in the second year or extended over a longer period of time)

An invitation

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you
ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk
looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being
alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to
know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been
opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from
fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without
moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can
dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic,
remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want
to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can
bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can
be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every
day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still
stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,
'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you
have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and
despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to
feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want
to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not
shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I
want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like
the company you keep in the empty moments.



Peace.

My desk

It looks like this once a month I think. On other days it is covered with paper :-)

seven and twenty

Welcome to the 27th year! Stay alive.

Words of Wisdom

Laughter is the best...

Cockroach is a pest, find their nest and you will rest!

-Bongbong

Youtube Effect

After reprimanding a kinder for pulling the pants of another kinder...

KINDER: And what if someone had a cellphone and took a picture of him with his pants off and post it in the internet, then that would be very embarrassing!

Hindsight into the future (Harper's Magazine)

Link

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character; ma, di ko na alam ang gagawin ko, nahihirapan na ako.

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me; bawasan mo kaya ang make up mo?

Teach US!

Kinder: Miss Gladys, teach us what you taught the first graders. We want to know what they know!

All I really need to know

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do

and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not

at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the

sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some

and draw and paint and sing and dance and play

and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,

hold hands, and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody

really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even

the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.

So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books

and the first word you learned - the biggest

word of all - LOOK.

And it is still true, no matter how old you

are - when you go out into the world, it is best

to hold hands and stick together.

© Robert Fulghum, 1990.

Found in Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books: New York, 1990, page 6-7.