More Affirmations for Kids

From Planet of Success -

Positive affirmations for children

1. I am loved.
2. I listen to my heart.
3. I am safe.
4. I have lots of friends who love me.
5. My dreams are coming true.
6. I am helpful.
7. I am friendly.
8. Every problem has an answer.
9. I am kind.
10. I can do it.
11. I play well with others.
12. I’m intelligent.
13. I learn from my mistakes.
14. I act responsible.
15. I am calm.
16. I love myself even though I sometimes fail.

http://www.planetofsuccess.com/blog/2015/powerfully-positive-affirmations-for-kids/

Daily Student Affirmations

From the Affirmation Spot -

1. Today and every day, my thirst for learning is alive and well in me!
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3. I can learn anything! I can know anything! I can be anything!
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5. This semester is MY learning experience and I take from it what is useful to me.
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7. I love the challenge of finals! I am acing all my finals this semester.
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9. I am a student and being a student is ALL about the possible!
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11. I am a great student and getting better each and every day!
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13. Learning new things is a challenge and I love challenges!
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15. I am prepared for my tests. I love taking tests. Tests are a breeze for me.
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17. I thrive and I succeed at school! Learning is my gateway to an abundant future.
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19. When I am exposed to information that benefits me, I absorb it like a sponge!

https://affirmationspot.me/2012/01/30/student-and-learning-affirmations/

Affect vs. Effect

From Grammarcheck -

http://www.grammarcheck.net/affect-vs-effect/

Ooops!

From Deadspin -

South African Soccer Player Accidentally Thanks Both Wife And Girlfriend In Post-Game Talk
By Emma Baccellieri

http://deadspin.com/south-african-soccer-player-accidentally-thanks-both-wi-1793405981

Dear Kitten: The Forbidden Water Bowl

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What happens when you leave a tetherball in the forest

Yes We Can!

From the Root -

Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
By Angela Helm

Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree.

They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9-and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis.

“Go back to Mexico!” two or three kids and their parents screamed at the proud team parents, according to some who were there, proving that black/brown excellence just makes some white folks downright nasty.

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“For the most part, the robotics world is kind of a white world,” said Lisa Hopper, the team’s coach and a Pleasant Run second-grade teacher. “They’re just not used to seeing a team like our kids.

“And they see us and they think we’re not going to be competition. Then we’re in first place the whole day, and they can’t take it,” she said.

http://www.theroot.com/black-and-brown-elementary-school-winners-of-indianapol-1793403809

Math Resources

From Education Technology -

20 Excellent YouTube Channels for Math Teachers

http://selectedreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20-excellent-yo_39_46315730dd3209c9030ab7366082aca8184fdb19.pdf

Stupid is as Stupid Does

From the Washington Post -

So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent
By Dana Milbank

This tragicomedy adds irony when you consider that the main character is the same one who campaigned by saying “they laugh at our stupidity” and “we are led by very, very stupid people” and “I have the best words, but there’s no better word than ‘stupid.’ ”

Now the world has reason to laugh at us — because we’re with stupid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-once-said-we-were-led-by-very-very-stupid-people-hes-finally-right/2017/03/17/1c6f915a-0b3a-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.6ee75b5984ce&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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FAMU Has a National Champion!

Go Rattlers!

From the Tallahassee Democrat - H/T Forrest

Florida A&M’s Carter completes wrestling journey as national champion
Rattlers’ heavyweight Rickey Carter won an NCWA heavyweight crown last weekend in Dallas
By Brian Miller

Carter captured a National Collegiate Wrestling Association national championship last weekend in Allen, Texas, winning his 285-pound weight class with a 2-1 overtime decision over Central Florida’s Jesse Gaudin in Saturday’s finals match.

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/2017/03/17/florida-ams-carter-completes-wrestling-journey-national-champion/99328724/

Budget Woes

From the Washington Post - (Bold is mine)

Trump budgets for a dumber, dirtier America
By Eugene Robinson

President Trump’s first budget is an attempt to reshape the federal government in his own image — crass, bellicose, shortsighted, unserious and ultimately hollow.

Unsurprisingly, Trump titled it “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again.” The reality is that if Congress were to accept these numbers — which it can’t possibly do — America would be made dumber, dirtier, hungrier and sicker. That may be Trump’s idea of greatness, but it’s certainly not mine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-budgets-for-a-dumber-dirtier-america/2017/03/16/3373adc2-0a82-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.b5413d9b577d

He's Helping to Put UC Davis on the Map

From CNN -

NCAA tournament: UC Davis' Chima Moneke spans the globe
By Jill Martin

(CNN)It's been a long journey for Chima Moneke, and it's not over yet.

The son of Nigerian diplomats has lived on five different continents. He hasn't seen his parents since 2009, when he moved back to Australia. He considers Canberra his home town.
Now in North America, Moneke is a junior forward at the University of California Davis. For the first time in program history, the Aggies are in the NCAA tournament, the premier college basketball postseason bonanza that can turn obscure student athletes into pro prospects overnight.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/sport/ncaa-tournament-uc-davis-chima-moneke/index.html

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Yea or Nay for Y'all

Getting in touch with my Southern roots.

From the Atlantic -

America Needs ‘Y’all’
English has no standard second-person plural word, and it’s time for that to change.
By VANN R. NEWKIRK II

How y’all doing?

A greeting as Southern as a bowl of grits, it rolls off the tongue in a single open-mouth utterance. Sweeter than honey and often saturated with hidden meaning, it can open up a dialogue with a roomful of strangers with ease.

Part of that ease hinges on the incredible versatility of the phrase’s most important word. “Y’all,” that strange regional and ethnic conjunction, offers a simplicity to speech that can’t be found elsewhere. It is a magnificently elegant linguistic creation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/the-case-for-yall/473277/

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