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Every year, the teenagers and I volunteer with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis' 100 Days of School celebration. Area schools bring their kindergartners and first graders to the museum, and in between visiting the exhibits, the volunteers help the kids do fun activities relating to the number 100.This year, my teenager and I had hoped to be assigned to the 100-bean maraca station again, but I actually loved the station we ended up at even more!When kids came to our station, we helped them measure their height and their arm span, and helped them record the information in inches and...

 Brrrrrrr It's Cold!!!!! Do you need some winter worksheets and printables to use with your students?Here are 12 free, fun, winter themed literacy and math worksheets to use in your classroom or homeschool. All of the worksheets are no prep for the teacher and easy to use. Just print your copies. No color ink is needed! The students will need crayons or colored pencils.                                                 The Math Topics are: Counting Numbers 1-5 My 120 Chart  120 Chart Fill-in  Addition Table/Chart ...

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Michelle Budge / Alex Cochran, Deseret News Editor’s note: The following article discusses allegations of child abuse. Those seeking resources or help concerning child abuse or neglect can contact the Division of Child and Family Services, including through an intake hotline at 1-855-323-3237.The first the Westover family saw of the book that would rip apart their lives was a copy of the manuscript, left anonymously one night on the seat of a family truck.The Westovers had heard talk, enough to dread what was written about them — horrific stories of abuse, sibling-on-sibling violence, primitive homeopathic remedies for life-threatening accidents, scathing harangues...

Akira Mizubayashi is a Japanese man who fell in love with French. He learned it so well, he obtained scholarships to study in France – twice. After getting his doctorate degree in French, he returned to Japan and taught French for the rest of his life. In his own words, this meant happiness. Mizubayashi wrote a memoir in French about how he learned French and how it changed his life – “Une langue venue d’ailleurs.” Une langue venue d’ailleurs – my own copy I bought this book in 2014, read 70% of it, and never finished it. Life happened. When...