Teaching & Learning- 12/21/20

Mount Airy City Schools- Volume 31

Do Something Fun During Your Holiday Break!

We appreciate you and hope you have a restful holiday break. Enjoy your holiday by taking some time for YOU and fill your own cup with joy! Just a few ideas below:

Enjoy a bubble bath
Read a book for fun and pleasure, not for work
Tackle a fun home project
Look back at old pictures and savor the memories
Take a break from social media
Enjoy your favorite meals
Share a movie and popcorn for family night
Hit our awesome greenway for some steps
Binge a series on your Netflix or Prime watch list
Take your pet outside for a front yard photoshoot
Go old school with family game night and break out the board games
Break out the snow dance!

Check out the sessions below to help address COVID fatigue

Borrowed from NCDPI Arts Team- Self Care from A+ Schools of North Carolina

As you enjoy some downtime over the winter break, perhaps you will take a little time for yourself! We offer you this gift of A+ U videos for that purpose. Designed for your personal pleasure, each short video offers a different focus for self-care, relaxation, enjoyment and personal learning. We hope you will find time to enjoy one or more of these.

A+ U Self Care Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2q3yMDsDZnlSDBcONY_5gupvabp63MGV

Includes the following videos for Self Care/Enjoyment:

Nature Drawing
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging
American Sign Language
Movement as Self Care
Songwriting
Gentle Yoga and Mindful Meditation
Making Shadow Puppets
Bamboo Haiku
Guided Tour of Great Books
Mandala Drawing

We wish you all a restful break and look forward to continuing our work together in 2021.

Michelle, Tom, Jennifer and Joseph

Free Teacher Resources for Grades 4-12

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is happy to offer loaner boxes for educators within the state of North Carolina. These loaner boxes will allow you to bring a little bit of the wild into your teaching space with no associated cost for teachers. Please see loaner box options below:

Magnificent Mammals - Grades 4-8
https://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Learning/documents/CCCWE/MagnificentMammals-LessonActivityPlan2.pdf

Materials included:
3 carnivore, 3 herbivore, & 3 omnivore skulls
Laminated lesson plan
PowerPoint
Laminated skull diagrams
Laminated species profiles for skulls included
Return shipping label
All materials for lesson plan included in loaner box

Dove Decoy – Middle & High School Sciences
https://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Learning/documents/CCCWE/DovePopulationEstimation-LP_July2020.pdf

Materials included:
28 dove decoys
Return shipping label
Most materials for lesson plan included in loaner box

If you wish to request a loaner box, or would just like more information please email wrceducation@ncwildlife.org with your requests.

Please also see attached file.