by Kim Jacobs | Aug 22, 2021 | Blog
Resource Spotlight: Your Local Library To say that I read a lot of books would be an understatement on par with saying that blue whales are large animals. I read with my students, especially the younger ones. I read to find books to suggest to students. I read for my...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Renaissance Festivals: Jousting About! Every summer, I see knights, noble lords and ladies, wizards, faeries, a walking plant twice as tall as I am, and even the queen. Do I travel through time? Kind of—it’s time for the Renaissance Festival again! Renaissance...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
What’s So Great About a Farmer’s Market? When it’s time to go grocery shopping, where are you most likely to go? Options for buying food are pretty varied in America. There are: national mega stores like Walmart and Target big-box stores like Costco...
by Kim Jacobs | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
WHAT’S in the Dictionary? All languages change and grow over time. This is obvious when we look at English from several hundred years ago; if someone walked around talking like they walked out of a Shakespearian play all the time, it would likely get some odd...
by Kim Jacobs | Jul 18, 2021 | Blog
Do Bi-Lingual Robots Dream of…..Bi-Lingual Sheep? “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.'” – Shakespeare Star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet might have thought that words in general and...
by Kim Jacobs | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog
Summer Soft Drinks…Harder Than You Think! When is it ok for a kid to have a beer but not a lemonade? When it’s root beer and hard lemonade. Many restaurant menus have a section for “soft drinks,” where non-alcoholic beverages like lemonade,...
