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On the day the text of President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren is released without “lesson plans”, Jim Greer again appears on CNN’s “Campbell Brown” show and upholds what he said earlier in the day on “The Situation Room.”

This time, however, Jim had company, as sub host John Robetrs welcomed alternate views from John Avlon and David Sirota. Avlon suggested Greer was “trying to spin a victory and do a ‘CYA’ move.” “It was an attempt to… turn the President into a fearful figure, and that’s shameful,” he said. And Sirota took Greer to task for criticizing Obama’s speech, and said that “parents who tuned into this speech because of the hysteria by people like Jim greer, are gonna read this speech, and realize that the Jim Greers of the world… are a bunch of psychopaths to try to make this into a giant controversy about socialist indoctrination.”

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Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, who was one of the most vehement critics of President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren upon its announcement, complete with “lesson plans,” appeared on “The Situation Room” on the day the text of the speech has been released - sans lesson plans - and said that he hasn’t changed his mind as a concerned parent, though he did say at the end that his own kids will be watching the President’s speech, “as I hope all kids will.”

He also said that it is “an upbeat speech, but is it the one the President was always going to give?”

“It was never about the President speaking to children about the importance of education,” Greer added. “It was about the White House writing lesson plans.”

Though a bit later, Greer also says: “We have Barack Obama, the auto king, we have Barack Obama, the banker, soon to be Barack Obama, the doctor; we don’t need Barack Obama, the schoolteacher.”

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36-week classroom curriculum for teaching the music and rhythms of the world to young children ages 3-8. This extensive set includes lesson plans, six new studio-produced CDs, and many other special teaching resources. Website: www.doremeandmaria.com

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Geosense is an online geography game. Geosense is not a program made by SchoolFreeware. Geosense can be found at www.geosense.net Players can play alone or against another player on the internet. Because the maps include World, Advanced World, Europe, and US, this games can fin into most geography lesson plans. Registration is not required to play.

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TuxMath is also know as Tux of Math Command. It is a free program and can be downloaded at:
http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31080
Or
http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org

TuxMath runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and Linux. There are updates that come regularly, so check back with the site often for the new program. Also, the program is open source with the code available for free download. So, all of the game programmers can take a look at the code and see how the game is programmed.

There are two games in TuxMath the first is comet zap (missile command) and the other is Factoroids (Asteroids). The game play on comet zap is well done with good graphics, sound effects and music. Factoroids can be a bit frustrating at times because it can be hard to dodge the asteroids, type the answers and fire the laser without being destroyed.

The Math Command Training Academy has levels broken down in a way that teachers can find a level that closely matches their existing math lesson plans.

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http://www.bamboogrovepress.com/myfriendwithin.htm
Here is a series of videos of our children doing some of the exercises from the complementary lesson plan/activity book that accompanies My Friend Within. People who purchase My Friend Within can email us from Bamboo Grove Press and we will send you the lesson plan as a pdf file.

The first video is contains a brief explanation of the lesson plan.
The second video features our children reading the book out loud together.
In the third and fourth videos, the children do part of two of the exercises- The Exploration Game and The Discovery Game.
The fourth video combines parts of two older videos. The first part is of a video we did last year (you can find this video in its entirety in the video response section below). The exercise they are doing uses the Energy Ball to represent the benefits of being connected. The second part of the video is from a video from three years ago. In it, our youngest who was about 3 years old, reads (in his 3 year old way)My Friend Within when it was still entitled He Sits.

For more information about this project, please visit us as Bamboo Grove Press

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http://www.constitution-activity.com/ Kids constitution activities should involve them, and inspire them
to engagement with the topic. We’ve developed a free download of this song with lesson plan.

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http://www.bamboogrovepress.com/myfriendwithin.htm
Here is a series of videos of our children doing some of the exercises from the complementary lesson plan/activity book that accompanies My Friend Within. People who purchase My Friend Within can email us from Bamboo Grove Press and we will send you the lesson plan as a pdf file.

The first video is contains a brief explanation of the lesson plan.
The second video features our children reading the book out loud together.
In the third and fourth videos, the children do part of two of the exercises- The Exploration Game and The Discovery Game.
The fourth video combines parts of two older videos. The first part is of a video we did last year (you can find this video in its entirety in the video response section below). The exercise they are doing uses the Energy Ball to represent the benefits of being connected. The second part of the video is from a video from three years ago. In it, our youngest who was about 3 years old, reads (in his 3 year old way)My Friend Within when it was still entitled He Sits.

For more information about this project, please visit us as Bamboo Grove Press

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http://www.constitution-activity.com/ Educators looking for constitution activities can use our
free lesson plan and download of this song, to get kids engaged, learning, and having fun.

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http://www.bamboogrovepress.com/myfriendwithin.htm
Here is a series of videos of our children doing some of the exercises from the complementary lesson plan/activity book that accompanies My Friend Within. People who purchase My Friend Within can email us from Bamboo Grove Press and we will send you the lesson plan as a pdf file.

The first video is contains a brief explanation of the lesson plan.
The second video features our children reading the book out loud together.
In the third and fourth videos, the children do part of two of the exercises- The Exploration Game and The Discovery Game.
The fourth video combines parts of two older videos. The first part is of a video we did last year (you can find this video in its entirety in the video response section below). The exercise they are doing uses the Energy Ball to represent the benefits of being connected. The second part of the video is from a video from three years ago. In it, our youngest who was about 3 years old, reads (in his 3 year old way)My Friend Within when it was still entitled He Sits.

For more information about this project, please visit us as Bamboo Grove Press

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