“Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.” – Joan Walsh Anglund

The Story of Hellen Keller The Story of Jackie Robinson The Miller, His Son and Donkey – Aesop Move Over Twerp – Alexander, Martha A Weed is a Flower – Aliki Wiley and the Hairy Man – Bangs, Molly Mary of Mile 18 – Blades, Ann Katy Did It – Boutis, Victoria Wagon Wheels –… Read more »

“Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” – Marguerite Duras

Socrates said “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Within the university, students and professors scrutinize every possible aspect of our universe-from the billions of galaxies to subatomic particles, electrons, quarks-but they assiduously avoid examining their own lives. In the wider world, we keep heretically busy and fill every free moment of our day with… Read more »

Steps to help students learn the 6-7-8-9 1- Each Finger is designated as a single number on each hand. 2-Little finger is equivalent to 6 Ring finger is equivalent to 7 Middle finger is equivalent to 8 Index finger is equivalent to 9 thumb is equivalent to 10 3- Write these numbers on each of… Read more »

One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring. One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal. One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam… Read more »

Thanks Gene for sending the Apache Rap. My son says that it can be saved to a CD but he has yet to show me! In time! Thanks again for the wonderful presentation you gave in Voorhes, NJ. I have an afternoon preschool class that needs lots of HELP. I decided to try out some… Read more »

If we were making a garden where flowers and vegetables grow, We must work the ground and plant the seed, carefully, row by row. A garden needs a great deal of work, back-breaking and tiring toil, But we’re working with God and his miracles when we’re working with the soil. And that’s the way with… Read more »

“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and… Read more »