Thriving in School

I don't know why, but g always gets picked on when people talk about handwriting. In the Mar/April edition of Good Magazine (what a m...

One of the big lessons in kindergarten is learning how to "share". Sharing work on the Hosmer student blog gives wings to our ...

This promises to be a great conference...instead of workshops, there are "conversations". EduCon 2.0 is both a conversation and...

I noticed the stress level was a little high at work this week. It is helpful to remember we work with kids, after all. We must all, in orde...

While I was on Twitter, I came upon an interesting site. What is Twitter, you ask? Well that is for another post. Suffice to say that I g...

Convert any photo into a talking character with PQ Talking Photo . Currently it runs on Windows XP/Vista, but a Mac version is expected so...

Winter break is over. It was a time for many of us to connect with families and friends. If you had a camera clicking the whole time, what ...

In his Science News Online article titled "Certain memories may rest on a good sleep" , Bruce Bower reports on the need for sleep...

"Work is nature's physician, it is essential to human health and happiness." - Galen Mel Levine talks about the family's r...

Last Thursday we got such lovely snow, about 10 inches of it. Before school on Friday, there was a fair amount of shoveling that had to be ...

FreeRice is a site that lets you do good while getting smarter! How cool is that? For every vocabulary word you get correct, it donates 2...

The bell rings and the school day is officially over. Now what? You would be surprized how students are connecting, sharing and creating...

Take a look at this creative way of using VoiceThread. I am not sure where this student goes to school or how old he is, but he certainly k...

Introducing your very own personal assistant. No, you don't need to hire anyone. Instead sign up for a free account at Jott. Use your...

Take a digital image (from your cellphone camera or digital camera) and turn it into a sharable document. - Scribbled ideas on napkins - Whi...

My New Favorite Tool! Why? It's Simple (the less clicks it requires, the more we are apt to use it) It's adaptable (can be used in ...

John Schinker from Taste of Tech wrote this post on being responsible for your own learning. Daily we are faced with new technologies to...

Come to the Watertown Special Education Parent Advisory Council meeting on Wed., Nov. 14, 2007, 7:00pm Lowell Elementary School Library, 1...

Tagging - the act of labeling your luggage for quick identification at the airport carousel Wiki - short for wiki sticks, those waxed piec...

How do you respond to sensations around you? Are you someone who seeks input, someone who does not notice , someone who avoids it or some...

Hear Ye Hear Ye: Parent Volunteers Needed in Hosmer School Library Parents can volunteer during their children’s classes and would be able...

WE WON! What a great ending to the baseball season...if you are a Red Sox fan. Do you feel like it was all a blur? Check back on the sea...

Just Happy...We're in! "World Series week indicates that baseball is one of America's major disturbances." - Bugs Baer Eve...

I look around at my environment to help me transition to the fall season. Frankly, it is not working. Just this week on a bike ride along...

I started each day this summer with a barefoot run on the beach. What a sensory delight. The sand was freshly raked by tractors in the pre...

It has taken me a while, but I finally have to say goodbye to summer. It makes me realize that transitions can be hard. I think of the stu...

The last day of school is here. Why not celebrate with this fun activity? The movement required to make it may offset the calories in the...

How often do we evaluate students and never share the results with them? "Kids need to know themselves , and they need to know what to ...

Blogs,Wikis, RSS, Message Boards...is your head spinning yet? There are so many new technology tools we could use if we just knew what they ...

I watched the finals of the National Spelling Bee last night. After the seventh round, only one girl was left, Isabel A. Jacobson, a 14-yea...