Daily Inspiration

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

- Spanish Proverb
inspire daily calendar Fri 10 Feb 2012

 

 

A Little Goes a Long Way

Many American kids don't think twice about paying $20 for a video game or a sweatshirt. But that $20 would go a very long way in third-world countries. Here's a look at how far a few dollars can go in many developing nations:

* $1 covers the cost of a lifetime immunization against polio.

* $5 is the cost of a mosquito net, which helps to prevent malaria.

* $10 can buy a grove of trees to prevent soil erosian in Zambia.

* $20 buys a backpack full of school supplies for a student in Sri Lanka.

* $40 pays for an entire year of education for a child in Kenya.

* $50 is enough to buy a goat, a source of milk and cheese, for a family in Mauritania.

- www.factmonster.com

Teachers daily calendar Thu 19 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
inspire daily calendar Thu 9 Feb 2012

 

 

Teacher: Wendy, what sound does a cow make?

Wendy: It goes "moo."

Teacher: Julie, what sound does a cat make?

Julie: It goes "meow."

Teacher: Arnie, what sound does a lamb make?

Arnie: It goes "baaa."

Teacher: Karen, what sound does a mouse make?

Karen: Um . . . it goes . . . "click!"

- www.basicjokes.com

Teachers daily calendar Wed 18 Feb 2009

Daily Inpsiration

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

- Rosalynn Carter
inspire daily calendar Wed 8 Feb 2012

 

 

So you've got thirteen . . . and you take away seven . . . and that leaves five . . . well, six actually, but the idea is the important thing.

- Tom Lehrer, New Math

Teachers daily calendar Tue 17 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

It is not the position,

but the disposition.

- J. E. Dinger
inspire daily calendar Tue 7 Feb 2012

 

 

How old would  you be if you didn't know how old you was?

- Satchel Paige

Teachers daily calendar Mon 16 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

A minute now is better than a minute later.

- Anonymous
inspire daily calendar Mon 6 Feb 2012

 

 

I spent several weeks concentrating on Valentine's Day "I love you" -themed activities with my preschool special education class. The parent of an autistic child came in and told me that she and her husband had received the best Valentine's gift: their five-year-old son told them "I love you" for the first time ever! Those are moments that make it all worthwhile.

- Carolyn B. on www.teacherscorner.net

Teachers daily calendar Sat/Sun 14/15 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

Teaching is the focal point of my universe. I'm at peace in the classroom. I'm called to teach just as any priest or nun. Aside from family, it's the most sacred part of my existence. I can't conceive of ever leaving the classroom entirely. Very few people are lucky to fins where they are suppose to be in life. There are a lot of wanderers out there. I was lucky to find it.

- Former California Teacher of the Year Richard Chapleau

Teachers daily calendar Thu 12 Feb 2009

 

 

If you say you understand something, then you can explain what you understand to others. Anything short of that is deception, not understanding. Education, above all, should not be about fostering deception.

- R.J. Kizlik

Teachers daily calendar Fri 13 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

- Buddah
inspire daily calendar Sat/Sun 4/5 Feb 2012

 

 

A young boy ran up to his teacher with tears in his eyes. The teacher asked, "What's wrong, dear?"

The boy said, "I just found out I'll be in school until I'm eighteen."

The teacher said, "That's nothing. I have to stay here until I'm sixty-five."

-  Milton Berle

Teachers daily calendar Wed 11 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

The Successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

- Bruce Lee
inspire daily calendar Fri 3 Feb 2012

 

 

Q: What is the skunk's favorite part of the school day?

A: Show and smell.

Teachers daily calendar Tue 10 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight for friends.

- Hillary Clinton
inspire daily calendar Thu 2 Feb 2012

 

 

As a volunteer in my daughter's second-grade class, I was listening to one young fellow read. The book he had chosen had several sentences with colons, and he read those lines twice. Finally I explained that he only had to read them once. "You see those dots there?" he said. "They're repeat dots, amd my music teacher says you have to do the line twice."

- Patti Strachen in Reader's Digest

Teachers daily calendar Mon 9 Feb 2009

Daily Inspiration

What is right is more important than who is right.

- John Wooden
inspire daily calendar Wed 1 Feb 2012

 

 

Fun Facts: Animals

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquito-sized insects in just one hour.

Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.

- www.corsinet.com

Teachers daily calendar Sat/Sun 7/8 Feb 2009