How to make a maze in Microsoft Excel for Homeschool : Fifth Grade
I have fond memories of sitting at my kitchen table as a child drawing maze after maze always hoping that my next maze would be the one that nobody could solve. Now one of my favorite times of the school year is when I can teach my students some rudimentary skills in Excel by having them create ...

Happy Labor Day!
School has been underway for a few weeks now. What happened to the days when school started after Labor Day?Zachary is enjoying fourth grade. He still loves math science reading spelling...looks like he just likes school in general! He has also been playing fall baseball and soccer on the weeke ...


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Ice Cream Social and Hallway Art ShowTuesday Sept. 156:00 - 7:30Our class will be open for parents to visit and see some of thework your child has produced in the first 2 weeks of school.I hope to see you then!August 2009Welcome to room 17 Mrs. Wolcott'sfifth grade class!You are cordially invit ...

Coming to a Classroom Near You!
There are many ways to evaluate excellent educational leadership. Here is a true story demonstrating such leadership.A school principal recently led me on a tour of his elementary school. As we walked into one classroom I saw the blood flush from the principal’s face. We walked in on a classr ...

Labour ripped the heart out of education
Scratch beneath the surface of successful GSCE figures and you’ll find a morass of ‘robot teaching’ that fails our childrenSo the first generation of students to be entirely educated under New Labour has just got its GCSE results. On the surface the government’s achievements look fabulo ...