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I am excited to share with you my summer focus:  ANIMALS!  I love life science and learning about animals -- especially those found on the East Coast of North America.  Every grade level teaches something about animals - habitats, adaptations, food web, etc...

My plan is to provide resources on individual animals - birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and even insects.  I am going to create these resources for a CHEAP price of $1.00...along with links to youtube videos, suggested children's books to read aloud and of course worksheets for your classroom. I will always offer ONE page for FREE!

The worksheet packets will include: vocabulary cards kid-friendly passages
spots to draw or reflect on the concepts taught
My first post is on EAGLES....look for it tomorrow!

PS - I have also dropped the price on all of my resources available on TeachersPayTeachers.  If you follow me, you know MOST of my resources are FREE.  But the few theat I do charge for, I have dropped the prices.  Check it out…

Today was a big day at the Supreme Court, which has just issued its ruling on Obamacare. For those who are interested, you can get a transcript of the court's opinion here.

Needless to say, the case has attracted a lot of attention. But I'd like to bring one issue to the fore that, to my mind, has not received enough attention. 

One way to think about the polarized debate regarding the Affordable Care Act is that it pits the individual against the community. Proponents of the law see it as an attempt to fix the health care system as a whole. They worry that our premiums are too high, that Medicare is on a fast track to insolvency, and that insurance companies refuse to cover pre-existing conditions. Critics, on the other hand, tend to dwell on what it will mean for individual consumers of health care. They worry about limiting individual care, that bureaucrats will get in between doctors and their patients, and that I will have to pay for my neighbor's unhealthy lifestyle.

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