Summer is often a time when families travel with school-age children. It may be a cosmopolitan vacation to a city, a cross-country drive to a national park or a trip “up north”. It could even involve an international flight to visit family or places unfamiliar. Whenever I plan a trip, ...
My Burns Park Elementary School second-graders were ready for class to begin when I held up Eric Carle’s "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Before I could get a word out, one of the students shouted “I have that book at home!” Carle’s books are popular, and his artwork is undeniably recognizable. ...
With a generous grant from the Ann Arbor Public Schools Education Foundation and personal donations, the Burns Park PTO and students have built and planted a huge school garden. With mud, sweat, and, possibly, tears, they are growing a new tradition. A few nights ago, I was walking through the ...
Every year, during the coldest part of winter, I host a desserts-only potluck. This year, I was determined to make a Thunder Cake using the recipe from the back of Patricia Polacco’s book of the same name. It is a chocolate cake with the surprising ingredient of pureed tomatoes.
For many of us, 40 years is a lifetime ago. For our children, that’s many lifetimes ago. In this time frame, it is fair to say that few parents and no students in elementary school can recall the social or political climate surrounding the inception of Earth Day. Thankfully, we ...
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