Monday, July 23, 2012

Algebra Review

This will be great practice before you start your class in the fall. Start with the unit quizzes first and then work through the unit itself.
http://math.com/practice/Algebra.html

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Cake Decorating Ideas


The Prairie Café and Bakery/Cakes By Alisha
Has buttercream
Photos of cakes
Located in Middleton

Carl’s Cakes
has buttercream
has price list on website
$16.95 to $75.99

Interesting website

Classes

1. Orange Tree Imports
           Meet the Baker – Daisy Café and Cupcakery, $45.00/stud
          Meet the Cake Decorators – Carl’s Cakes, $45.00/student
      2. Madison School and Community Recreation
https://www.madison.k12.wi.us/files/CurrentProgramGuide.pdf
Cooking classes range from $26 to $46 per student


Friday, May 4, 2012

Small Business Websites


Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation

Tips for Starting your own business

Dane County Job Center

MATC

City of Madison

Small Business Administration

Small Business Myths

Legal Explorer

Cake Decorating Links


Starting cake decorating businesses

Some cake decorating blogs

Some Links about schools and certification associations

Contest for supermarket cake decorators

Friday, April 6, 2012

Upcoming meetings

No meeting next week!
Friday, April 20, 8-10:00 am
Friday, May 4, 8-10:00 am
Study for Finals
Classes over May 10th!

Be sure to call or email if you hear from ECE, or Financial Aid (FAFSA).

Good Luck!!!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Priorites


1. Yeah! Congratulation on your new job!
2. Finish Madison College classes.
3. New transcripts to Milwaukee.
4. Add IRS information to financial aid website form.
5. Reports will then go to DPI (Department of Public Instruction).
6. Check for courses required for Wisconsin license.
7. Practice, practice, practice for Praxis test!

Whew! You have a lot going on right now. Be sure to eat, relax, and sleep so that you will stay healthy during this very stressful time.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Sentence Fragments

- Here is a link to an interactive exercise where you identify the fragment in a paragraph.
- Here is a link to a Powerpoint Presentation describing sentence fragments. To begin, start clicking.
- Here is a link to a game which will help you to identify complete sentences and sentence fragments. (40 examples)
- I have some worksheets that I will give you when we meet. They contain sentence fragments. You can show me how to make them into complete sentences.

Examples of Metaphors and Similes

1. Life is a highway.
2. Life is like a highway.
3. Her home was a prison.
4. His skin was as cold as ice.
5. He was a lion in the fight.
6. He fought like a lion.
7. John is a real pig when he eats.
8. John eats like a pig.
9. These cookies taste like garbage.
10. They fought like cats and dogs.
11. He was a tornado, blasting his way through the opposing team.
12. She ate like a horse.

1.Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Metaphor
4. Simile
5. Metaphor
6. Simile
7. Metaphor
8. Simile
9. Simile
10. Simile
11. Metaphor
12. Simile

Simile Poem (examples of similes)

Predictable

Poor as a church mouse.
strong as an ox,
cute as a button,
smart as a fox.

thin as a toothpick,
white as a ghost,
fit as a fiddle,
dumb as a post.
bald as an eagle,
neat as a pin,
proud as a peacock,
ugly as sin.

When people are talking
you know what they'll say
as soon as they start to
use a cliché.

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Here's an interesting website describing similes and metaphors. Be sure to click on the audio and read-a-long :)
Grammar Girl: Metaphors and Similes

Powerpoint Tutorial

There are several PPT Tutorials videos on the web. Here's one.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, a well-known American poet, was published in 1923 in the book New Hampshire.



Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Gingerbread Boy

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You can find the story here!

Gingerbread Man Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 3 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter (room temperature, softened)
  • 1/2 cup dark-brown sugar, packed
  • 1 Tbsp ground ginger
  • 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup unsulfured molasses
  • Optional raisins, chocolate chips, candy pieces, frosting

Royal Icing

  • 1 egg white
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 3/4 cup confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)

The Three Little Kittens (a nursery rhyme)



The Skype Reading Teacher



An ESL student reading to children



A song about the Three Little Kittens