Song and Poem This month’s song is a great American classic! Sing along with this video. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot or try this one that includes lyrics. Hopefully by now you have memorized the first half of our last poem. This week, please add the third stanza. And, remember to review the poems you have […]
Author Archives: Jodi Zabriskie
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Mar
Mar
Here is your checklist Incentives Matter! Song and Poem This month’s song is a great American classic! Sing along with this video. Take Me Out to the Ball Game Has anyone been able to memorize “Can’t”? $5 vanbucks if you can recite it to me on Thursday! Has learning this poem impacted how you think […]
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Jan
Jan
Here is your checklist When the market competes, you win! Song and Poem Practice our song, I’m Gonna Mail Myself to You We’re starting off the year with a challenging, yet inspiring poem. How often have you said, “I can’t!” when something felt difficult? That very statement can serve as a prophecy, if we aren’t […]
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Nov
Nov
Here is your checklist Song and Poem Practice our song, Simple Gifts. Here’s a sing along video for you! This week, we’ll memorize the final stanza! Please also review the poems you have previously learned. How many can you still recite? Ingenious Little Old Man, Ooey Gooey, and the Vulture? You can find them listed […]
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Oct
Oct
Song and Poem Practice our song, You’re a Grand Old Flag. Here’s a sing along video for you! This week, we start a new poem! But don’t forget about the Ingenious Little Old Man, whom we met previously, or Ooey Gooey, or the Vulture! Please review those previous poems, too. You can find them listed […]
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Sep
Sep
This is our last economics class for the foreseeable future. (Cue weeping, wailing, sorrow and lamentation. I’m feeling it, too! And, even if you don’t feel that way, we can still be friends.) The format for this week is much the same as previous weeks, with one big difference. Because there are more readings (not […]
Welcome to another excited week of Economics! First, let’s put in a little plug again for why economics matters. (Just in case you forgot or you are new to economics this year and were wondering…) And, because he brought it up again, let’s review the idea of “that which is seen and that which is […]
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Sep
Sep
Here we go again! Jump in, buckle up and enjoy the ride! Imagine a world without risk and where no one needs to compete. Where all your needs and wants are provided regardless of personal effort. Where no one goes without because all are provided for…somehow. Three key concepts in a free market economy that […]
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Sep
Sep
Song and Poem Practice our song, This Land Is Your Land. Here is a sing along video. Read this poem each day. See if you can memorize the first stanza. The Ingenious Little Old Manby John Bennett A little old man of the seaWent out in a boat for a sail:The water came inAlmost up […]
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Sep
Sep
Read and mark chapter 1 of Economics in One Lesson. (Your family may own this book from last year’s economics class or you can find a free version here. If you use the online version, print pages 18-22.) Read The Tuttle Twins Learn About the Law. (This is the book that I showed you at vision […]