The month of October is Bullying Prevention Month.   As teachers we all have an awesome responsibility to keep our children safe and that’s a very difficult job in this day and age when bullying takes many different forms.  I find one of the best ways to reach my kids about this subject is to tell [...]

This week in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, I am challenging you all to reach out to Spanish speaking friends, colleagues and parents who may not be familiar with our free bilingual program available in Spanish and English at www.missmaggie.org! As always, the content of our Weekly Activity Packets are specifically designed to be meaningful [...]

Every year we come to you during the month of September to provide activities to help you and your students celebrate Hispanic Heritage month and the valuable contributions of our Hispanic heroes and their rich culture.  And while on this topic, did you all know that at www.missmaggie.org the majority of our activities and many [...]

This week and every week as our team here at Maggie’s Earth Adventures put our heads together to consider topics for the week’s blog, the rush of ideas were tremendous.  And it made me pause and consider once again the responsibility we have as teachers to cover so much material, recognizing that there is so [...]

Dr. Kathy seen here with one of her favorite creatures.  A panda!

Maggie Partners: Multi-tasking as we all often do, our Maggie team was alternately scanning Tweets for inspiring education fodder while composing ideas for our Weekly Activity Packet.   Here great minds collided and we quickly adapted our activity to address teacher’s needs for process problems in math education rather than simply problems that require calculation.  As [...]

Didn’t receive this week’s FREE, Weekly Activity Packet profiling an amazing NASA achievement?  E-mail info@missmaggie.org and put NASA in the subject line.  We’ll make sure we fire them off to you right away!

We recommend a plan for the first week of school – plan, plan, plan. And then make MORE plans. Remember to have triple the amount of activities you think you will need. Make sure to vary the type: whole class, small group, active, independent work, etc. etc. What you don’t use the first week you [...]

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We know many schools are already back in session so a hearty welcome back to school.  We’ll fire up our FREE, Weekly Activity Packet program later this month but in the meantime log on to Teachers’ Lounge if you need some cool activities!

This week’s recommendation is Carlos Ruiz Zafron’s, Prisoner of Heaven. I remember being overwhelmed by his first book, Shadow of the Wind (for those enthusiasts I hear there is a Shadow of the Wind Tour in Barcelona) and his third certainly does not disappoint.  Returning to the Sempere bookstore we again are taken on a [...]

Yes, I admit it: I am obsessed with the U.K. costume drama, Downton Abbey. In my quest to fill the time until season 3 regales me with the exploits of the Dowager Countess, Mrs. O’Brien, and the sympathetic Mr. Bates, I sought out summer reading opportunities to fill the Downton void.  Several novels caught my [...]

From our Executive Director, Mason: Even if you never read Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James is a wonderful mystery.  If you have read Pride and Prejudice you’ll be thrilled to see your favorite characters come to life again!  I picked it up during up lull in the popular television series, [...]

Every year we like to recommend books to our readers?  What are you reading?  What would you recommend?  We are asking for adult suggestions as well as children.  Please send your suggestions and a line or two about the book and we’ll post a few here each week!  info@missmaggie.org

Fish or Foul? Primary Activity Fish or Foul? Intermediate Activity

Dr. Kathy Director of Education Well here we are, wrapping up another succesful school year following a very auspicious start here at www.missmaggie.org headquarters in Northern Virginia.  Can any of us forget how Mother Nature tried her best to derail back to school activities as we dodged a triple threat of severe weather events over [...]

Dr. Kathy Director of Education This week as we prepare to wrap up our 12th year here at Maggie’s Earth Adventures I am overwhelmed by the opportunity this  program has provided for my colleagues, our Maggie partners, and me. Our original mission was to expand the world for our students and with the help of [...]

Dr. Kathy Director of Education Maggie’s Earth Adventures celebrates all of our veterans and thanks them for their service. This week’s WAP was inspired by a photograph of an elderly woman I found in an old family album in my grandmother’s basement. I knew nothing about the woman in the photo, who she was or [...]