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Showing posts with label nj. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nj. Show all posts
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Homeschool Days - NJ
at least the following places have special homescholing days at their sites in NJ:
Monday, August 31, 2009
NJ Resources
- WheatonArts 1501 Glasstown Road, Millville, NJ 08332, 800-998-4552
email: mail@wheatonarts.org
Artists at The Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center are creating work unlike any imagined by the first glassblowers – contemporary art using glass in unexpected and often marvelous ways. New Glass at Wheaton explores the world of the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts, where fellowship artists live and work together as they pursue their creative visions. Their Education Page - Living History Farm http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/learnerresources.html Site's Age Range: 8-11 (~4th grade) From a farm in Nebraska - but some of it is applicable to so many other sites. Fosterfields in Morristown may be the closest living history farm for many of us.
"Learner Resources" include FREE lesson plans tied to the stories about farming in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and so on. They were written by teachers for classroom use, they can be modified for homeschool use.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Learning Resource Center
subtitle: The best $2/year I spend on education.
One of my favorite support centers remains NJ Dept. of Ed's Learning Resource Center. My children (*) and I have logged hours and hours at the LRC. I have used many of their machines, their work area and their professional library. I have borrowed board games, books, manipulatives and curriculum resources, and cut hundreds of pieces on their Eillison Dies. I know no less expensive place to laminate things.
There are 4 LRC offices: North (East Orange), north satellite (Morris Plains), central (Dayton) and south (Sewell). Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5 pm.
New evening hours starting 9/2/08: Morris Plains, Tuesday until 6 pm; Dayton Wednesday until 6pm; East Orange, Thursday until 6 pm. (They follow the state schedule and do close for snow storms. I am not liable for any schedule changes. Late August to early September and spring break the centers are often packed with teachers, but many other times there is more work space than you could need. If you arrive on the day of a conference, the parking lot may be packed -- but there may still be work space; it will depend on the conference they are running.)
* - it is not a children's center at all. If you do not have children who can sit and self-entertain and handle time without food or drinks perhaps you can coop, or trade time with another parent so that you can go on your own.
One of my favorite support centers remains NJ Dept. of Ed's Learning Resource Center. My children (*) and I have logged hours and hours at the LRC. I have used many of their machines, their work area and their professional library. I have borrowed board games, books, manipulatives and curriculum resources, and cut hundreds of pieces on their Eillison Dies. I know no less expensive place to laminate things.
There are 4 LRC offices: North (East Orange), north satellite (Morris Plains), central (Dayton) and south (Sewell). Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5 pm.
New evening hours starting 9/2/08: Morris Plains, Tuesday until 6 pm; Dayton Wednesday until 6pm; East Orange, Thursday until 6 pm. (They follow the state schedule and do close for snow storms. I am not liable for any schedule changes. Late August to early September and spring break the centers are often packed with teachers, but many other times there is more work space than you could need. If you arrive on the day of a conference, the parking lot may be packed -- but there may still be work space; it will depend on the conference they are running.)
* - it is not a children's center at all. If you do not have children who can sit and self-entertain and handle time without food or drinks perhaps you can coop, or trade time with another parent so that you can go on your own.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
America By Food
Key Ingredients: America By Food is a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that stirs the senses and has something for the whole family. Trace how immigration and technology have changed eating habits throughout 500 years of American history. Explore the culinary and agricultural traditions of New Jersey. From the Pinelands bogs where Elizabeth White cultivated the commercial blueberry to the Newark factory where M&Ms were invented to the nonalcoholic grape juice created in Vineland by Thomas Bramwell Welch, New Jersey has a rich and vibrant heritage of food innovation, tradition, and production. For more information about the exhibit and the programs that will be running in New Jersey, visit the official NJ Key Ingredients page at http://www.njch.org/keyingredients!
The Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit, Key Ingredients: America By Food, shows how regional traditions and international influences have shaped American cooking. The six host sites in New Jersey will hold Jersey-specific events and show Jersey photos, including a Good Humor truck in Morristown; picking blueberries in Woodbine; and duck hunters displaying their bounty in Tuckerton.
January 31, 2009-3/15/2009: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (Thanks Mary!)last updated: Jan. 30, 2009.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Dodge Poetry Festival
Historic Waterloo Village in Stanhope, New Jersey will be re-opened especially for the audiences of up to 20,000 expected for the 12th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, which will run from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2008.
An essential component of each Festival is a series of special programs for high school students and for teachers at all levels, elementary through college. More than 4,500 students and 2,000 teachers from throughout the country participate in conversations and readings designed specifically for them during the first two days of the Festival.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Duke Farms
Duke Farms in Hillsborough is closing some of its exhibits for renovation (I think on 5/25). If you want to see them as they are, book a trip through Museum tix. You need to use this even to get tickets for their (many) free tours.
I think the indoor display garden is the one that will "never be the same".
I think the indoor display garden is the one that will "never be the same".
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
NJ History - live
Looking for about 30 more area 6th graders to read NJ's favorite and most dynamic history teacher's latest book - Uncertain Revolution. The author, John Cunningham will be ready to speak to them about it on:
3 p.m. Sunday February 24, 2008
Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, NJ
(Yes, that's 2 extra weeks to read the book! the January 31st talk was postponed.) Volcanic eruptions! Smallpox plague! Gore, scheming, riots! Last month he kept 167 of us on the edge of our seats. By the end see if you agree that Morristown was the most important place to the Patriots' Revolutionary War's success. He'll also sign and sell books. Any 6th grader who listens to the talk (it lasts an hour) may enter his or her name in a drawing for a $50 Morristown Partnership gift certificate. The drawing is held right after the speech, and certificate handed over immediately...just in time for holiday shopping.
See also the NJ History Contest for 6th graders (just read the book!) The name of any 6th grader who reads John Cunningham's Uncertain Revolution will be entered in a Sunday, February 24th drawing for 100,000 Continental Frequent Flyer miles. One winner only. We just need names sooner - to make the contest come true. Names will not be used for anything else!
3 p.m. Sunday February 24, 2008
Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, NJ
(Yes, that's 2 extra weeks to read the book! the January 31st talk was postponed.) Volcanic eruptions! Smallpox plague! Gore, scheming, riots! Last month he kept 167 of us on the edge of our seats. By the end see if you agree that Morristown was the most important place to the Patriots' Revolutionary War's success. He'll also sign and sell books. Any 6th grader who listens to the talk (it lasts an hour) may enter his or her name in a drawing for a $50 Morristown Partnership gift certificate. The drawing is held right after the speech, and certificate handed over immediately...just in time for holiday shopping.
See also the NJ History Contest for 6th graders (just read the book!) The name of any 6th grader who reads John Cunningham's Uncertain Revolution will be entered in a Sunday, February 24th drawing for 100,000 Continental Frequent Flyer miles. One winner only. We just need names sooner - to make the contest come true. Names will not be used for anything else!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
NJ History Contest - 6th graders
Read a book and get a chance to earn 100,000 frequent flyer miles! As described in The Daily Record - but you heard it here first! NJ's favorite history teacher has a new book out & your 6th grader has a nice incentive to read it.
If we can get 100 names of 6th grader who reads John Cunningham's Uncertain Revolution, they will be entered in a 24th February drawing for 100,000 Continental frequent Flyer miles. One winner only. As long as we can get the names of at least 100 6th graders to award the 100,000 miles. If fewer 6th graders participate, the number of miles donated will depend on the number of participants, i.e. if 67 6th graders read the book and enter their names, 67,000 miles will be awarded. The book lists a $25 but it available at amazon.com for $17 - and at your library for far less, or contact Betsy to get a discounted copy!
Why are we doing this? One mom, knowing that her 6th grader would start their Revolutionary War unit in February, heard that Mr. Cuningham would speak on Morristown's role, and tagged along to a talk in December 2007. In a scant hour, he had 167 of us on the edge of our seats as he proved that Morristown was the most important place to the Patriots' Revolutionary War's success. Volcanic eruptions! Smallpox plague! Gore, scheming, riots! Perfect fodder for 6th graders to feel like history is cool, and so is Morristown. Even remarkable teens are in the tale: who knew Hamilton and Lafayette were teens when they went to work for Washington during the war? She wanted to kick herself for not taking her son to the talk. Instead of me telling him about it, he could have heard it with no expectations for himself.
Mr. Cunninham's new book on this topic-how Morristown is the most important place in America to the success of Revolution-is terrific. It's accessible and action packed. I smell one of those rare opportunities to get kids really vested in their communities...and history. In local history. The FMS social studies textbook notes only that Washington moved his headquarters to Morristown at some point, and spends a full page on the terrible winter at Valley Forge. Turns out the winter at Valley Forge was one of the mildest, and the 4 harshest winters of the war were spent in Joisey: 3 in Morristown. Not only is Cunningham a fabulous raconteur both in person and in print, but it will be sort of cool for the kids to challenge what they read in the textbook, and realize that a textbook is just a starting place. School learning can be fleshed out in so many ways.
Reading level: It's not written for middle schoolers, but strong readers in 6th grade can manage the book themselves. I think it's a great read-a-loud book for families or reading circles. Reading circles: next e-mail. This is a cool idea as well. Please, please pass this on to names you don't see on this list. We'd like to reach out to every 6th grader in the area.
To get a reduced price copy of the book: "Morristown area sixth-graders can get a reduced-cost copy of John Cunningham's local history book, The Uncertain Revolution, or can join a reading circle to hear the book read to them, by leaving a message for Betsy Harvin at (973) 451-1097 or at betsychina@aol.com"
John Cunningham also spoke on the book, Tuesday, November 27th at 4:30 pm at the Morris County Parks office on Mendham Road. The 6th graders attending entered their name in a drawing for a $50 Morristown Partnership gift certificate - it was handed that night ... just in time for holiday shopping.
Last updated: 1/7/2008
If we can get 100 names of 6th grader who reads John Cunningham's Uncertain Revolution, they will be entered in a 24th February drawing for 100,000 Continental frequent Flyer miles. One winner only. As long as we can get the names of at least 100 6th graders to award the 100,000 miles. If fewer 6th graders participate, the number of miles donated will depend on the number of participants, i.e. if 67 6th graders read the book and enter their names, 67,000 miles will be awarded. The book lists a $25 but it available at amazon.com for $17 - and at your library for far less, or contact Betsy to get a discounted copy!
Why are we doing this? One mom, knowing that her 6th grader would start their Revolutionary War unit in February, heard that Mr. Cuningham would speak on Morristown's role, and tagged along to a talk in December 2007. In a scant hour, he had 167 of us on the edge of our seats as he proved that Morristown was the most important place to the Patriots' Revolutionary War's success. Volcanic eruptions! Smallpox plague! Gore, scheming, riots! Perfect fodder for 6th graders to feel like history is cool, and so is Morristown. Even remarkable teens are in the tale: who knew Hamilton and Lafayette were teens when they went to work for Washington during the war? She wanted to kick herself for not taking her son to the talk. Instead of me telling him about it, he could have heard it with no expectations for himself.
Mr. Cunninham's new book on this topic-how Morristown is the most important place in America to the success of Revolution-is terrific. It's accessible and action packed. I smell one of those rare opportunities to get kids really vested in their communities...and history. In local history. The FMS social studies textbook notes only that Washington moved his headquarters to Morristown at some point, and spends a full page on the terrible winter at Valley Forge. Turns out the winter at Valley Forge was one of the mildest, and the 4 harshest winters of the war were spent in Joisey: 3 in Morristown. Not only is Cunningham a fabulous raconteur both in person and in print, but it will be sort of cool for the kids to challenge what they read in the textbook, and realize that a textbook is just a starting place. School learning can be fleshed out in so many ways.
Reading level: It's not written for middle schoolers, but strong readers in 6th grade can manage the book themselves. I think it's a great read-a-loud book for families or reading circles. Reading circles: next e-mail. This is a cool idea as well. Please, please pass this on to names you don't see on this list. We'd like to reach out to every 6th grader in the area.
To get a reduced price copy of the book: "Morristown area sixth-graders can get a reduced-cost copy of John Cunningham's local history book, The Uncertain Revolution, or can join a reading circle to hear the book read to them, by leaving a message for Betsy Harvin at (973) 451-1097 or at betsychina@aol.com"
John Cunningham also spoke on the book, Tuesday, November 27th at 4:30 pm at the Morris County Parks office on Mendham Road. The 6th graders attending entered their name in a drawing for a $50 Morristown Partnership gift certificate - it was handed that night ... just in time for holiday shopping.
Last updated: 1/7/2008
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