Melva Gifford

I wanted to see what kind of Facebook entries a conservative posts and what a liberal posts. First four entries:

Conservative:

Nice Scottish landscape

Ground hog cartoon

Landscape

Free fruit for kids are more US job in solar than oil (politifact)

Liberal:

Selfie

GOP math, saves $5 million by switched to fling river water

…Hillary Clinton’s the most qualified candidate… but Bernie sanders … most qualified to create

Trump: I should shoot someone in the face and not lose votes.

Want to have a fun way to share with someone how you love them. Leave them a secret message. In your family bathroom write a secret message for your family members or one for your honey. The next time they take a shower and steam up the mirror, they’ll find your message.

I got this hidden idea from the web site:

WRITE A SECRET MESSAGE from: http://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/funstuff/2184/weird-science/

What You Need:

• Liquid dishwashing detergent
• Cup of water
• A few cotton swabs
• Hand mirror or bathroom mirror
• What You Do:

Place a few drops of dishwashing detergent into the cup of water. stir to mix well. This is your secret message “ink”.

Dip a cotton swab into the soapy solution. Write a short message on the mirror. When the liquid dries, the message will be invisible. (If not, use a little less of the solution.)

When you take a hot shower or bath, do not get the mirror wet, but get the mirror close enough to the steam from the water so that it gets fogged up. Close the door so the steam stays in the bathroom.

Follow up with notes of love to kids, friends and family in notes in their pocket, books etc. Bring a smile to their faces.

I attended the Eagles’ form and took notes on the various speakers. This is what Chris Stewart had to say.

• Hearing will be taken place in southern Utah to cover the abuse of the BLM (Bureau land management)
• We can’t take I give up attitude.
• This fight is too important
• Sometimes we get punched backwards.
• We have military equivalents of 1930.
• Book: the seven articles to save America.
• The article of Confederation was failing. There was no unified voice. States are starting to hate each other. We are at this time equal to that situation.
• We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis. Our president says I’ve got a pen got a phone.
• The house is doing its work. 396 bills were created that died in the Senate.
• Get rid of the filibuster. It stops conservative bills but does not stop liberal bills
• States should do a constitutional convention. There is concern about doing a convention. If we don’t do something we can’t fix it.
• John Paul, Barbara Thatcher and Ronald Reagan saved our world at their time.
• Book: nine days that change the world.
• Recently John Paul addressed 2 million people at once. A chant began from one corner of the audience that began to fill the whole audience. All saying the same thing: we need God. We need God. We need to stand up and acknowledge that we need God. We only an exceptional country if we depend upon God.
• We had a critical role to play.

Good: perspective

Bad:   prespective

I keep wanting to pronounce with a pre. But widening our PERSpective is seeing another PERSon’s point of view thus remember PRESpective.

We’ll see it that helps me spell this better.

Morgan Adams discussed the challenges of setting up New Year’s resolutions at Toast Masters. Here are some things I learned.

• 62% of people make New Year’s resolutions.
• only 8% will succeeded in keeping them.
• In Psychology Today it tells how people have fear of success and of the unknown.
• Some suggestions on keeping goals are to make your goals realistic.
• Your goals need to be monitored. Define specific results you’re looking for such as date, time, and method to achieve specific goals.
• One example might be to lose 3 pounds in a month. Rather than Setting the goal to lose 50 pounds in a year. Then you assigned specific days of the week to exercise.
• One of the challenges of reaching new goals is old habits. People will need to engage their minds very seriously to turn old habits into new habits.

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I had the opportunity to establish a dialogue with Sara Bell. She has generosity volunteered to post to the teaching embellishments blog. She has a very enjoyable article by the name ‘teaching methods that are sure to keep your students engaged’. Her bio and webpage is at the bottom of this article. Please check them out. Thank you and happy reading.

It’s 8:00 a.m. and your students are groggy. You’ve got a big day of learning planned for them, but they don’t seem the least bit interested in participating today. What do you do?

Making just a few tweaks to your lesson plans can make a huge difference in the level of engagement in your elementary school classroom. Implementing these methods will help remind your students that learning can–and should–be a fun, positive experience.

1. Have Them Write In a Journal

Having quiet reflection time a few times a week will benefit your classroom in multiple ways.

First, both you and your students will benefit from quiet time you all can use to think and reorganize your thoughts after a busy day of learning. You might need this break as much as they do!

Writing time also encourages creativity in your classroom. Whether you assign journaling prompts or allow your students to write freely, journaling will help your students learn how to communicate their thoughts and feelings.

2. Teach with Storytelling

Telling stories in the classroom is crucial to your students’ creative and emotional development.

Using children’s literature is the most literal way to put this method into practice, but you can also try implementing storytelling into your daily lesson plans, too. English and history subjects work great with storytelling, and it’ll only take a bit of extra effort to find ways to turn science and math subjects into engaging stories as well. Inject humor and current pop culture references whenever possible to give your students something to get excited about.

3. Use Interactive Exercises

It’s a good idea to limit your use of lectures and Powerpoint presentations as much as possible. Instead, look for parts of your lesson plan that can be taught with a hands-on exercise or activity.

Role playing, group projects, and kinesthetic activities are all great ways to keep your students curious and excited about what they’re learning. You might even keep a box full of historical costume pieces and accessories on hand for the kids to put on when they’re giving presentations or dramatizing historical events. Often, costume pieces can be made from donated Halloween costumes or by using items purchased at a local consignment store or from your own closet. Letting them dress up is a great way to spice things up for the kids and really helps them immerse themselves in the lesson.

4. Give Praise Often

Do you make an effort to regularly let your students know that you’re proud of them?

Don’t underestimate the importance of praise in the classroom. To be effective, praise should be clear and specific so your students know exactly what parts of their behavior you appreciate and would like to continue seeing.

Positive feedback will boost your students’ confidence and make them want to continue to live up to your praise in the future.

No matter what your lesson plan for the day is, remember that it doesn’t have to be boring. It will take practice on your part, but continuing to make these small changes in your teaching approach will have your students growing increasingly curious about learning with each passing day.

Sara Bell grew up in a family of teachers—her dad has taught high school for 30 years and her mom is a university professor. At EducatorLabs, she puts the lessons they instilled in her about the importance of curiosity and learning to great use. When she isn’t working, she enjoys reading, writing, and knitting.

http://educatorlabs.org/.

I attended the Eagles form and took notes on the various speakers. This is what Mia love had to say.

• United States used to be a beacon of hope because of freedom. They allowed people to work and to create a better life.
• Now it is the time where our allies or weak and our enemies stronger.
• Mia told of the great story of a boatload of refugees I think of Indonesia that US Naval ship rescued. As a boat approached to help these refugees one man stood up and spoke in English. He said “hello American patriot. Hello freedom man.”
• Each citizen should take United States allegiance vow like the one new citizens take.
• We should each take the naturalization tests.
• We have had a free market system, free enterprise, where we can walk down the street and buy an Apple for the best price.
• We have a fourth branch of government. It is called the regulatory agency.
• A brighter future requires a lot from us.
• Mia visited a project to interview people is seeing how the money to fight poverty is being handled. One mother said that the Democrats have enabled me to stay exactly where I am. She also purchased her daughter a pink coat. But on the way to school the mother told how the daughter had to what walk past drug peddlers, criminals, a metal detector to the school doors and then to come home again.
• CFPB: consumer finance protection Bureau. The directors chosen to be in that position for five years. This currently Mr. Carderian. He can stay in that position for another five years if there is not a replacement.. Every time you sign up for credit card or use a credit card they collect data. The only way to prevent this from happening is for Congress to veto the power of this organization and then it has to signed off by the president. They are not paid by Congress. They are paid by the Federal Reserve.
• We need to change the process in Congress. We need to get the power of the purse.
• Up deal should have only one purpose, rather than a bunch of bills that cover things are for and against. Then Congress will be held accountable for their boat. She still has hope for this country.
• She has for us to help her restore article 1 of the constitution.

Good: allergic

Bad:   allergetic

I keep wanting to put get in allergetic. That’s wrong. No one want to get an allerGIC reaction so no allergetic but allergic.

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