Teacher Karen

Parent,grandparent & ECE teacher supporting parents/creating PLAY-based resources for children’s learning #PlayMatters #Parenting
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[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

Clearly the curriculum/focus is FAILING! Parents should be apoplectic!! #WakeUp parents--seems the teachers unions are NOT prioritizing children's education

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

More than ⅓ of Americans can't name all three branches of government.

👉🏻 https://t.co/Jb8r9QKzKc

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

I choked up the 1st time (& many times after that) I read this to the preschoolers...the message is just spot-on regarding what is important in Life. Admired #DollyParton in so many ways -the #ImaginationLibrary is such an impactful gift of literacy for children. RIP #DollyParton

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@JeremyClarkson This is exactly the kinds of experiences children need--way to go Grandpa! Enjoy every minute with your grandchildren!!

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

This is a perfect setting
-up for learning!

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely.

Before sunrise, six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon, the eclipse. After dark, the Perseids Meteor shower.

Four events on one day, NASA says, and the new moon that same date keeps the sky dark enough to actually see the meteors.

You don't need a telescope for most of it. A field, a coat, and twenty minutes for your eyes to adjust.

[Snoopy Daily 🐾 @SnoopyDaiily]

🔴 HAPPY 76TH BIRTHDAY SNOOPY!

Snoopy made his Peanuts debut in 1950, while his August 10 birthday was first mentioned in a 1968 comic strip.

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@AmazonHelp Thanks--I'll call the bank tomorrow. If that doesn't resolve it I'll left you know

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@AmazonHelp It says I need some kind of extension. I called & spoke w/ a rep again who said to call my bank--so I will

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

Love this! I get in the forest at least 1x/wk--I wonder if it builds on itself... #OptOutside

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Reminder to go touch grass

A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month

The study is incredibly fascinating:

Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.

Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.

Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.

He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.

The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@jk_rowling Happy, happy birthday!!

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

2 and improve their cardiovascular system; learn to face adversity, perserve and ultimately become more resilient; and value teamwork.

Grandbubs competing in youth sports give grandparents some really fun summer days!
#PlayMatters #LetThemPlay ##KidsDeserveIt #grandparentslove

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

1 Youth sports are a fantastic way for your kiddo to improve their:
1 Physical health,
2 Emotional well-being, and
3 Social development

Through sports, like baseball, kids develop (among other benefits) coordination
#PlayMatters #LetThemPlay #KidsDeserveIt #grandparentslove

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@coldxman If it's okay for Portugal it's okay for the US https://t.co/zc59uNKL6H

[Loren Porter @rorochub2]

Cape Verde soccer can hold their head high. What a game. Top 5 soccer game I've ever seen

Just unreal.

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

Looking at education, if your state's ranking has declined while spending has increased-something needs to change. For ex, WA st fell to 31st from 20th (10years ago) yet they've taken in 110% more $$.
Students/Parents deserve better

https://t.co/dKEC0WUDnl

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

This would be fantastic @POTUS! Kids outside, providing community service--love it!

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@JenniferSey @xx_xyathletics Men absolutely cannot ever, ever be men! Don't let women be erased

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

@rodstewart If you're at Lake Louise apologies for my husband gawking...

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

Continue celebrating #EarthDay by encouraging your kiddos to #OptOutside! Let your kiddos experience all of #MotherNature and, in turn, learn how to guard and care for our Earth and everything in it. #PlayMatters #LetThemPlay #parenting

[Teacher Karen @play_grow_learn]

3 creating via ART. Sticks are a natural, FREE open-ended material that encourage kiddos to invent and discover ...and PLAY outside!
#PlayMatters #LetThemPlay #OptOutside #MovingIsLearning #GrandmaLove #parenting