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One mom living in the Southwest (USA) who digs up ideas about many varied subjects such as photography, homeschooling, gardening, eating well, raising backyard chickens, living with dogs and rabbits and helping the rabbit to live a long life with aforementioned predatorial dog on the premises, bringing home hamsters and small critters, navigating PTA and other wild trips through the public school system, ultimate fighting matches with to-do lists, and more! I’m resourceful and like to share resources that I’ve dug up. I’ve always got my nose in a book and usually it’s not fiction; I like books that show you how to do something. You can imagine how crazy I get over the resources on the Internet! I am a mom with a crazy, compartmentalized internal life that sometimes escapes externally.
Our child is eleven years old and is operating in and around fifth grade, more or less. Keep that in mind as you browse some of these resources – many of them fit the 9-12 year old range beautifully, but can be tailored to different ages as well. My point is to encourage you to reach out for fun and interesting ways to teach your children. Let creativity get the BEST of you!!
I am also a fine art photographer and have a website, an Etsy shop and a blog about journeying through life with camera in-hand. If you are the least bit intrigued, click on the links to see what else I do after the chickens have been tucked safely into their coop for the evening, the dishes are done, laundry is put away, floors are swept and Max has trotted off to bed (seriously – I’m not that organized or neat!)
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nice blog.
have you considered teaching literacy skills – dialogue writing, tenses, narration etc. – using shadow puppetry? i am trying this out with my class of 10 year olds. they are reading the ramayana and the mahabharata, will pick up an episode/story and stage it in the wayang kulit style. we will start making the puppets from day after tomorrow.
Hi, Sherin –
I just finished up a quick study of Wayang puppets and the Hindu stories of ramayana and mahabharata; it affirms the fact that there is an entire universe of vivid history, culture and art out there begging to be experienced. Thank you for sharing a unique teaching tool, one that your students are likely to remember for a long time. They are lucky indeed to have such a creative teacher! I was familiar with reader’s theatre for narration; shadow puppetry is a great suggestion. If anyone reading this comment is curious about Wayang puppets or the two stories mentioned, you can refer to this longer than long link: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gamelannetwork.co.uk/assets/pics/Bima.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gamelannetwork.co.uk/seleh-notes-library/wayang-puppets.html&h=297&w=290&sz=14&tbnid=vPZrfk5LyydT5M:&tbnh=116&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwayang%2Bkulit%2Bpuppets&usg=__zudoZsRBFZd9totvR3FJ1FhHrCU=&ei=GhQDS43EJoOosgOHyPmGBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image&ved=0CA0Q9QEwAg