May 30 2008
By Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
“Jillian, if you don’t stop talking back to me, you’re going to sit in the time out area until you learn to respect me!”
“You know that when children in this family won’t put their toys away they have to sit in time out. Is that what you want? If not, [...]
May 05 2008
We took advantage of the school’s Spring Recess to take a tour of the Girl Scouts Headquarters located on 420 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. We were surprised that the CEO, Kathy Cloninger was in the office and not traveling – we took a picture with her.
Clockwise from upper left: Nancy, Kathy, Josephina, Jocelyn, [...]
May 05 2008
Kathy Cloninger, Girl Scouts CEO, is revitalizing an icon and turning young girls into leaders.
From Reader’s Digest August 2007
Bold and Brave
She was at a music festival — primitive camping, no electricity, no running water — when an executive search firm for the Girl Scouts managed to reach her by cell phone. Kathy Cloninger had [...]
May 04 2008
Source: Scholastic.com http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7953
With more land, people, and voices than any other continent, Asia has an especially colorful literary presence. Explore these resonant folktales, heartbreaking immigrant stories, and luscious emotional landscapes.
Picture Books
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
Filled with conflicting emotions, a Vietnamese girl works with her classmates to try to bring her mother to [...]
May 01 2008
How do preschool teachers get kids to behave? They let the children work out conflicts themselves.
Johnny Chin’s blog Jimmy Ng’s blog