Autumn leaves change colors
Students begin new school year
Retired teachers smile
Parents take a long deep breath
New challenges await all
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Teachers Change the World
Photos of my students: Dwight L. Roth
This flashback is for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge. He asked us to write a poem that included autumn/Labor Day/ School. This is a project I had my students do many years ago. They had to make a bird nest and put a real egg in it. Then they had to find a spot on the school ground where they thought it would be safe. At the end of the week we checked to see how many survived. Fun times before “teaching the test days!”
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Roth Poetry 
Reblogging to my sister site “Timeless Wisdoms”
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Thanks you very much!
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Loved the project idea!
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Thanks Reena! It was a fun one!
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First – Thanks for being a Teacher with a capital T!
I did a short stint as a pre-school teacher in what seems like another life.
You reminded me of a High School project that I read about where students were paired off with an egg
and had to pretend it was a baby and give it 24 hour care for a week (between the two student parents.
Manheim is a tad north. I don’t have FB but I just went looking… Yep, I think 283 in those parts really did get a bad go. Eek. We didn’t have any water in our home. And it didn’t come up the yard as much as the last storm. But I guess it was a might powerful, that overnight flooding.
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Thanks Jules. I appreciate your comment. This was a really fun project.
I remember reading about the pretend parents caring for an egg. Babies are really fragile as well.
Glad the flooding did not affect you.
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What a great post Dwight!
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Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it.
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Look at you, Professor Roth! 🙂 The forever creative you are! 😀
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Ha Ha!! You are too funny! I have always had one leg out of the box!
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😀 So true!
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#Haiku Happenings #2: Dwight’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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Cool project, Dwight!
My husband retired from teaching high school math a couple of years ago (though he’s teaching as an adjunct at a community college), but our daughter is an eighth grade English teacher–school starts tomorrow!
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Thanks. It is so nice to not have to think of having to do all that planning. More fun to look back!
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