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Monday, February 27, 2012. Where did February go!? Today I am grateful that I can manage my time, if I learn how!  - Doc Meek

I am thankful for my colleagues at TeacherPlanet.com who write me regularly with good ideas for teaching:

Hello Doc,

We hope that you find all of our resources useful. If you need to contact us, you can do so here.

What’s New?	March is not only Women’s History Month, but also World Reading Month! We have resources to get you prepared as well and worksheets for Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2nd. .
Lesson Plans	Get started preparing for World Reading Month at Teacherplanet.com! We have an entire theme page dedicated to lesson planning for this month-long event in March. You will find reading lists, study guides and more to encourage your students to love reading. .
Theme Units	Originally, Women’s History Month was Women’s History Week. It started in California in 1979. Congress recognized Women’s History Month in 1987 and the movement continues to grow with schools around the country moving to educate about and promote the accomplishments of women. Visit the Women’s History Month theme page for a wealth of resources for teaching this important topic. .
Worksheets & Printables	This week we have many Dr. Seuss worksheets for some fun learning activities to celebrate Dr.Seuss’s birthday on March 2! .
Vote Now	In reference to No Child Left Behind, which would you prefer? Share your thoughts! A. Continue to teach under the current NCLB law. B. NCLB waiver & agree to raise education standards & tie teacher evaluations to student achievement Most respondents so far are in favor of a NCLB waiver (64%). What do you think? Let us know by casting your vote here. .
Teacher Tools	To coincide with World Reading Month, we are featuring The Monster Exchange, a great teaching tool in this issue. Visit MyTeachertools.com to see how this project can encourage the development of reading and writing skills in your students! .
Submit Your Ideas	What do you want to see in our newsletter? Perhaps you have some ideas, articles, worksheets or webquests? Please submit your ideas by visiting this page. We’ll be sure to list your name as the author! . Quote of the Week “I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.” ~ W. Wilson . Grants for Teachers Find over 1000 Grant Opportunities for Teachers at Grants4Teachers.com Featured Grant this week: APS Foundation Grants . Joke of the Week Check out the Science Lab Rules at Jokes4teachers.com! . Degrees for Teachers Online Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Education at Teacherscollege.net Featured Schools: Western Governors University - Online Masters Degree … …. ……… …. ……Nova Southeastern University - M.A.T.L. online. … …. ……… …. ……Drexel University - Master of Education … …. ……… …. ……University of Cincinnati – Master’s Degree Online . Certificate of the Week This week’s featured Certificate: I Can Tie My Shoes! Award Try our Certificate Builder! It lets you create unlimited, customized printable certificates for each of your students. eBooks and Posters This Week’s Featured eBook for Teachers: Beginning Map Skills (Enhanced eBook)Grades 2- 4 This Week’s Featured Classroom Poster: Shoot For The Moon Assessment Rubrics Print out this Visual Arts rubric at Rubrics4teachers.com . ESL Resources This week at ESL4Teachers.com, review English medical terms with “Hospital English” resources. . Thank you, TeacherPlanet.com, for your help with learning/teaching! Doc Meek, Mon, Feb 27, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Saturday, February 18, 2012. Today I am grateful for teachers and parents who teach critical thinking in their classrooms and in their homes. – Doc Meek

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Excerpts from a newsletter from CriticalThinking.com:

Teaching ideas to inspire a love of thinking and problem-solving!

• Monopoly
  It was in the month of February, 1934, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. The game was rejected due to 52 design errors, but this didn’t stop the creative, unemployed Pennsylvanian. He went on to hand-make and sell 5000 copies of the game. The rest is history. To this day, Monopoly, the most popular money game in America, is available in 103 countries, has been translated into 41 languages, and has sold over 200 million copies. Prepare yourself for the next family game of Monopoly with this free printable activity from our award winning fourth grade book, Mathematical Reasoning Level E.
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• Propaganda
  Debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates are currently a hot topic in the media. These debates receive lots of radio and news coverage and candidates often sound quite convincing in their arguments. How do we really know if the candidates are sticking to facts? How do we become more critical of their techniques to convince us to vote for them? Try this free activity from the chapter, “Propaganda,” found in Critical Thinking Book 1. You’ll have a whole new set of cognitive tools to analyze the debates.
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• Random Acts of Kindness Week – February 13th-19th
  February 13th-19th marks Random Acts of Kindness Week. Here at The Critical Thinking Co.™, we don’t wait for this week to come around every year in order to practice random acts of kindness; we do it all year round!The Critical Thinking Co.™ donates two or more free products to children in need every time an order is placed. Over the past year we donated tens of thousands of books and software. With your help, this year we will donate more than 100,000 educational products through our Critical Giving program. The Critical Thinking Co.™ encourages you to step into the spirit of Kindness Week and Refer a Friend to our company to receive a free $15 Amazon gift card.

  For more information about this important week you can visitwww.randomactsofkindness.org/RAK-Week/.

  “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Thank you, CriticalThinking.com, for your classroom leadership!

  Doc Meek, Sat, Feb 18, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Monday, February 13, 2012.  Today, once again, I am grateful for Pat Wyman and the opportunities she provides parents and students on HowToLearn.com.  ~ Doc Meek

Thursday, January 26, 2012. Today I am very grateful for teachers and prospective teachers, the world over. ~ Doc Meek, Teacher/Learning Specialist

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I am also very grateful for Melissa Kelly, Secondary Education Guide at ABOUT.COM, who sends me newsletters.

Here are some excerpts from Melissa Kelly’s recent newsletter to me about teacher pay, and other things:

ABOUT.COM: Secondary Education

Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Today I am grateful that my colleagues at TeacherPlanet.com reminded me: “Chinese New Year is celebrated this year on January 23rd. 2012 marks the year of the Water Dragon – something that only occurs every sixty years.” ~ Doc Meek

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EXCERPTS FROM TEACHERPLANET.COM NEWSLETTER TO DOC MEEK:

Monday, January 9, 2012. Today I am grateful for a “random act of kindness” that rescued a faltering funeral soloist. ~ Doc Meek

My brother sent this heart-warming and moving account.

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• On 31 December 2011, it was Dorothy Clark’s funeral. She is one of several women that Dorothy knew, at least as acquaintances, and had visited in hospital when they were ill, for example. She was 90-something, and had been a member of our ward at church for years and years. She had had a hip replacement not very many years ago, and the family thought then that she might not make it through. But she rallied, and learned to walk with it and everything. Recently, however, she had been quite ill (but mercifully, for only a relatively short time). During her illness, especially the last few weeks, she was completely at peace; and she had mentioned to family and friends that she was ready to go.

The funeral was a lovely service, and provided an especially poignant moment toward the end when Dorothy Clark’s Granddaughter sang a solo tribute, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” The purpose of this entry is to describe that moment as best I can. I was very moved by it, and so were many others in the congregation.

This Granddaughter, whom we scarcely know, is perhaps college age, or so. And she was accompanied at the piano by her Mother (the daughter-in-law of the deceased). This Granddaughter was clearly trained in voice, and started off confidently and bravely with a composure I could not have mustered in the circumstances, certainly not with that hymn, at any rate. She sang several verses with ease and grace, … even with charm and a very pretty smile. But when she came to the last verse, the text was a little too close to home, I think, and she began to lose her composure.

There in my Father’s home, safe and at rest,
There in my Savior’s love, perfectly blest;
Age after age to be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Now it so happens that sitting beside the organ console where she had been playing the prelude music and accompanying the congregational singing was this sister, perhaps middle-aged, and whom I only know because she is a very experienced and accomplished singer, and with many, many laudable performances to her credit in many venues. She was not a part of the solo tribute at all, just sitting there handy to the organ console where she would soon go to accompany the congregation in the closing hymn. The organ console is about three steps from where the soloist was singing..

The soloist got about three words into that final verse when it became clear that she was not going to be able to carry on, … at least not the way she would want to. The sister who had been providing the organ accompaniment for the service, stood up with her very best performance bearing, with a loving and supportive smile, and exuding firmness and strength that I could not have mustered, walked the two or three steps over to the soloist, locked her arm in hers, and began singing with her (without missing a beat or a note or a word) exactly as if they had rehearsed it as a duet a hundred times. She sang with her only the next phrase, whereupon the soloist regained some of her composure. And the other woman continued to sing, but much more quietly, so that it again became a solo performance. But she stayed there, arm-in-arm with that young soloist, flawlessly projecting the confidence and assurance that they now shared in some way, until the end of the piece.

She then comforted her with some words of encouragement, exchanged pleasantries with her, and the two of them sat down..It was just such a perfect, perfect gesture, rendered at exactly the perfect, perfect time and in the most perfect, perfect way, that there was not a single dry eye in the congregation, including mine. I would love to have the grace and skill and presence of mind to do something like that sometime. It was just so profoundly beautiful and loving that it made a measurable impact on the service. And others mentioned afterwards that it was just exactly the kind of thing that Dorothy Clark would have been able to do when she was alive and well. What a magnificent tribute..It is, methinks, a really good example of what true brotherhood and sisterhood is all about here in this mortal brier patch. This world would be a so much better place if there were more people who were willing and able to step up to the plate in such circumstances, and provide a helping hand just exactly as needed..I am filled with gratitude for that sister, for the soloist and for the privilege of being in the congregation to witness such a beautiful helping hand, filled with love and assurance and confidence and strength. .

Thank you, unknown support singer! Your example of “instant kindness” is inspiring to me!

Doc Meek, Mon, Jan 9, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Monday, December 26, 2011. Today I am grateful for family who invited us for Christmas yesterday with the grandchildren! ~ Doc  Meek

It began looking a lot like Boxing Day early Monday, on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. (James Murray/CBC)

Image from: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/12/26/boxing-day-sales.html

“Boxing Day” in Canada has nothing to do with the “fight game.” It refers to the day after Christmas Day, when hordes of shoppers go hunting for post-Christmas bargains, and to exchange Christmas gifts that need exchanging.

One lady said to me, “It’s like ‘hand-to-hand combat’ in some stores, so I just stay home on Boxing Day!”

For me? I curl up with a good book, like best-seller “Lost December” by Richard Paul Evans, or “Potevka’s Gifts” by Mike Ramsdell (author of best-seller “A Train to Potevka”).

Whether you go out to engage in “hand to hand combat” in some stores, or stay in to curl up with a good book, my best to you this Christmas Season.

Doc Meek, Mon, Dec 26, 2011, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA

Sunday, December 11, 2011. Today I am grateful for fellow researchers and educators who help us all to learn better and easier! Pat Wyman of HowToLearn.com is such a one.  ~ Doc Meek

I hear from Pat Wyman regularly and I am grateful:

Dear Doc,

The Best Educational Toys 2011

It’s getting to be the holiday time, and you are sure to want at least one educational toy for your child or a friend. Educational toys today are fun and teach kids amazing news things, while they inspire creativity and raise self-esteem at the same time.

So, HowToLearn.com is proud to announce their annual Best Educational Toys 2011 and we thank MrsPinkelmeyer.com for being this year’s sponsor.

Learn more with better toys.

Warmly,

Pat Wyman

Founder, HowToLearn.com
The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, Inc., 4535 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 200, Las Vegas, NV 89102

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Thank you, Pat Wyman and HowToLearn.com for great learning leadership!

Doc Meek, Sun, Dec 11, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

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Sunday, November 20, 2011. Today I am grateful to learn that November is National Aviation Month in the USA. Here I am, a “flying nut,” and I didn’t even remember that. My trusty colleagues at TeacherPlanet.com reminded me. ~ Doc Meek

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Dear Santa,

I know it’s a little early to be writing to you.

However, I thought it might be worth alerting you ahead of time on one of my smaller wishes.

See, I’m a simple man with simple tastes. I don’t much care what kind of car I drive, and I do not have any overweening ambitions to be rich or anything like that.

All I want for Christmas is a simple little Lear Jet, OK?

Are you able to accommodate a humble wish like that?

Sincerely,

Doc Meek

P.S. Maybe you could lend me a million dollars as a down payment on a Lear Jet if you feel my wish competes with other people’s requests for flying machines (like sleighs–with or without reindeer)?

P.S.S. I help kids overcome learning difficulties of all kinds. Does that count in terms of you listing me as a good boy?

I had serious learning problems at first when I tried to learn to fly. Trying to drive the aircraft in 3-D space (maybe infinite-D space?) was not easy compared to driving a car in 2-D on the ground, eh? No fear. I got it in time. That’s what I tell the kids: “No matter what you are facing, you will get it in time. Look what Santa learned to do. What if you’re smarter than you think?”

Ho, Ho, Ho!

Doc Meek, Sun, Nov 20, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Monday, November 7, 2011. Today I am grateful that my wife Jeannette and I could attend the November 4 marriage ceremony of dear friends at the Cardston Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ~ Doc Meek

Cardston Alberta Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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In the Temple we can learn about the creation of the earth and the possibility of living with our loved ones forever.

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Thank you, dear friends, for inviting us to attend your special time together in the Temple.

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Doc Meek, Mon, Nov 7, 2011, Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA