Terebinth Learning Consultants

12/09/2023

WHILDE WISDOM: DYSLEXIA

📚🎮 Games for Supporting Students with Dyslexia! 🌟🎲

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Discover the power of games in helping students with dyslexia enhance their reading and language skills! 📖✨ Combining fun with targeted strategies, these 10 games engage and empower children with dyslexia on their learning journey. Let's unlock their potential through play! 🧠🎮

Here are 10 games that can support students with dyslexia in developing reading and language skills:

1️⃣ Scrabble
2️⃣ Bananagrams
3️⃣ Crossword Puzzles
4️⃣ Story Cubes
5️⃣ Apples to Apples
6️⃣ Boggle
7️⃣ Rhyme Time Bingo
8️⃣ Word Search
9️⃣ Mad Libs
🔟 Hangman

These games provide engaging ways to improve vocabulary, spelling, word recognition, and language comprehension. Encourage your child to play these games and watch their skills grow while having fun!

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The Dyslexia Initiative

11/02/2023

Join Molly at Through the Trees for Nature Storytime tomorrow morning from 10-11am! Sign up here: https://www.throughthetrees.org/classes-events. 📖🌳🍄

10/27/2023

Our world is rapidly changing around us and today many children feel like spaces that were once safe no longer are. And they don’t yet have the ability to process these events and feelings on their own.

There are good resources available to help.

Today is heavy in the aftermath of another mass shooting and international violence. Our hearts are with educators and students everywhere as they handle the grief and violence that has entered their lives. Alex Shevrin Venet at Unconditional Learning has this advice about teaching on the day after a crisis:

https://buff.ly/3ZoPfJj

✏️ Check in with yourself - Move your body, journal, collaborate with others, and lean on your support network.

❓ Don't rush to intellectualize - Give yourself and your students time to process emotionally before you jump in.

⭐ Validate and offer choices for support - Everyone processes differently, and it's important not to rush to "fix" these emotions in our students. Instead, witness their pain and listen to their needs.

☁️ Model not-knowing - It can sometimes feel like educators have to have big answers after tragedies. Instead, ask yourself 1) What I know, 2) What I think I know, & 3) What I want to know, and model that inquiry with your students.

❤️ Be gentle with yourself - Please remember that you are enough. There is immense pressure on educators to “get it right” when talking about hard topics. The moments after a crisis can feel like a fleeting opportunity, an open door through which you have to run at full speed. In reality, there is no room on the other side of that door containing perfect clarity, safety, or peace. Crisis and trauma fundamentally shift our relationship to the world, and unpacking that can take a lifetime. Just showing up for your students on day 1 is enough. Just holding space for them and letting them know you care is enough. You are enough.

10/14/2023

I had a chance to visit Throught the Trees this week, talk with two of the founders, and walk some of their beautiful property. This is a fabulous nature immersion program. I love what they are doing!

09/29/2023

APPLICATIONS OPEN for up to $1500 to support outdoor learning in your classroom or school for the 23/24 school year! Deadline to apply is October 13th. Apply here: https://www.meeassociation.org/minigrants-for-outdoor-learning

Also check out the Frequently Asked Questions and the Example Application to support your process in applying.

05/13/2023

Natural spaces & creative imaginative play. Vital for creative thinking and mental health.

“When children play in natural spaces, they’re far more likely to invent their own games than in more structured settings – a key factor in becoming self-directed and inventive adults later in life.' Richard Louv

This is so true and definitely the case with my children. This is a photo of my son and niece deeply absorbed in making a cake from elderflowers, grass and sand.

04/28/2023

While children are naturally curious, for inquiry to be effectively used in school, you need to start with structured inquiry to provide students with the tools and habits of mind needed for productive inquiry.

Cool visual:

04/19/2023

The Critical Skills Classroom creates an environment for engaging, effective learning.

03/21/2023

Executive functioning skills are vital for time and task management as well as organization, among other things. A lag in the development of these skills can be caused by various factors and can produce a great deal of frustration and struggle. There is a hope! A good program and coach can make a difference.

03/14/2023

A great opportunity to increase your knowledge and confidence in bringing outdoor learning to your school!

We are very excited to act as Southern Region host for Teach ME Outside's 'Building a Culture of Outside Learning' workshop on Friday, March 24th from 9AM-2PM!

If you are a teacher looking to further expand your school's outdoor learning opportunities, this is the perfect workshop for you. Join other teachers and workshop leaders to learn creative ways to get students outdoors to enjoy and learn from the natural world.

Teach ME Outside is a partnership between the Nature Based Education Consortium, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance - MMSA and Maine Environmental Education Association, providing workshops and resources throughout the state of Maine.

To reserve your spot for the workshop hosted here at Center for Wildlife on the 24th, use the link below!

https://airtable.com/shruuEd7HGHGWIFDF

02/23/2023

This looks like a fabulous opportunity for professional learning and foundation to implement an engaging and valuable program n a school.

Applications are open for the 2023-2024 Maine Farm and Sea to School Institute!

The Maine Farm & Sea to School Institute is a year-long professional opportunity for Maine schools/districts to develop a Farm and Sea to School program. It's an opportunity to bring a small school team together that consists of teachers, cafeteria staff, school admin, community members, and students!

School teams receive a year of technical support from Maine’s experts and participate in a 3-day Academy Program July 24th-26th, 2023 at The Ecology School to vision together about the future of their food and garden based learning goals for their school. Learn more and apply by March 15th, 2023 at www.mainefarmtoschool.org/institute

Maine Farm to School Network

02/18/2023

Located in Casco.

We're hiring! Part time position starting this fall!

02/08/2023

Come learn with us! If you're interested in a career in wildlife rehabilitation, consider applying for our Seasonal Internship Program. Our interns typically are on campus from late May through the end of August. They learn animal husbandry, diet preparation, clinical care, restraint and handling, avian identification, and record keeping. The hours are long and the work is intense, but rewarding. Avian Haven is the largest volume wild bird rehabilitation facility in New England, so our interns gain an enormous amount of experience with a diverse range of bird species. The deadline to apply is March 15th. Learn more: shorturl.at/itEW4

01/26/2023

Outdoor learning doesn’t stop just because it’s cold out! There are so many amazing things to learn about in the winter!

01/26/2023

What could be better than exploring and learning about the natural world while getting some fresh air with your family?

During our Forest Families program, we will meet one of our live animal ambassadors, spend some time exploring outside, and hopefully learn something new! This program will be geared more for elementary and middle schoolers, but all ages are welcome.

This month, we will become animal detectives and search for tracks and other signs animals may leave for us on Saturday, Jan. 28th from 11AM-12:30PM.

Tickets to this program include self-guided access to our Nature Center and Outdoor Ambassador Enclosures as well! For more information and to book tickets, head to thecenterforwildlife.org/events

01/26/2023

Calling all Garden & Food Educators in K-12 schools, to join this virtual drop-in professional development space!
A subcommittee of the Maine Farm to School Network, our February call is on Tuesday February 7th from 3-4:30p.m. and will focus on sharing, planning, and peer mentoring for Late Winter/ Spring Garden Curriculum. Register here to receive a zoom link: https://foodcorps.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrceytpzgjG9zgcMLGWEUadeFW1nS0XCzy

Maine Environmental Education Association Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) Maine School Garden Network Maine Farm to School Network KidsGardening.org Nature Based Education Consortium