Inspired by Lady Gaga's Born This Way, your students will use metaphor, quotes and other symbolic skills to create their own me board.
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6-8: Your Improv Scene
Create a spur-of-the-moment improv scene. Make sure to include: Setting (place and time for your scene) & potential props; Characters; 10 lines of...
K-2: Take the Marshmallow Test
If you were given the marshmallow test, what do you think you would do? Why?
9-12: Immediate Gratification
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As summer break approaches, it is the perfect time for me to reflect upon the school year that was. The successes, the failures and everything in-between. A number of ideas came to mind, but a few thoughts seemed to resonate with me.
Here are my top 5 reflections on this school yea...

St. Jude Giving Tree Preschool
Blairstown, New Jersey
If you could have any person (living, dead or fictional) as a principal, who would it be?
Joe Clark from the Lean on Me movie. What he did in Paterson was amazing. He is a great motivator for the students and their parents and didn't accept less then the best from anyone including himself.
How did you know you wanted to be a teacher?
I've wanted to be a teacher ever since I started watching Little House on the Prairie as a child. I wanted to be just like the teachers in the show. One day I would be Laura teaching in Walnut Grove and the next I was Mary teaching in the blind school!
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