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How To Sell Foods at Farmers Markets
The town center down the road arranges for a local band and a local farmer's market Saturdays during the summer.
It's nice how the organizers assure local growers and purchasers a fun, popular market since the area naturally grows beautiful, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/23/2022
Movie Review: The Dirty Dozen (1967)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
In particular, I appreciate where you identify disappointments and suggest fixer-uppers, such as the back story to Major Reisman.
The library system here has ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/23/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
BSG
Fab examples of resources, by the way
Veronica, on 07/22/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
BSG
I agree. For example, my 9 year old grandson is a genius mathematician but he is still a child so enjoys the " play " aspects of using dice , numberlines, watching times tables videos on you tube etc .....
Veronica, on 07/22/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
I recall from the early 50s how we learned fractions by watching the nun hold cardboard pies and show fractional pieces. Some students need to see something concrete, others do not. Using simple objects can help those that need visualization, ...
blackspanielgallery, on 07/21/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
Certainly with pupils aged 5 -7, I always started them playing on number lines moving along using dice
Veronica, on 07/21/2022
Trendy Mobile Phones Apps How They Are Made?
Cross-platform frameworks are becoming popular day by day. Frameworks like PhoneGap do not require knowledge of programming only web development languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, etc. This applies to others as well in some form or the ...
pateluday, on 07/21/2022
Roman Ghosts in Britain
To my knowledge there have been no hauntings attributable to foederati families.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2022
The Haunting of Lighthouse Island
I don't know of the effects of later developments on the haunting. Nothing seems to have been written about it for some time, other than repeats of Maxwell's experiences.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2022
The Legacy of Rome in Britain
Southern England is not very hilly and is ideal fighting territory for legions, which were designed for relatively flat lands. But as the Romans went northwards they encountered rockier, boggier and more mountainous terrain, in which the ...
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
Yes, number lines are great. I even use them toltiplication by a negative number reverses the inequality.
blackspanielgallery, on 07/20/2022
Helping Children with Arithmetic: The Early Grades
As a teacher of many years, I think that mental maths and the use of
counting on number lines is very
effective
Veronica, on 07/20/2022
Roman Ghosts in Britain
It's particularly intriguing in your third paragraph, under the subheading Hadrian's Wall, where you remind us of the wall forts as serving as continued homes for the foederati and their families after Roman legions were withdrawn.
Would there ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2022
The Legacy of Rome in Britain
The Romans spread themselves too thinly. They did not have the resorces, human or physical, to cover all that land.
Scotland was difficult to capture because of the utter savagery of the Picts and Scoti . The terrain and weather also ...
Veronica, on 07/20/2022
The Haunting of Lighthouse Island
It's interesting that the lighthouse successfully was automated, that the cottages successfully were made attractive enough to appeal to tourists and that the bridge successfully was constructed.
Such activities make me wonder about their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2022