Author: Tina Bell

Resiliency Training for First Responders

Throughout your career as a first responder, you’ve been (or will be) exposed to various traumas, disasters, and other types of events that can take a toll on you physically, mentally, and emotionally. Coupled with other stressors from your personal life and overtime, these events can become a heavy burden. You do not have to carry that burden alone. There

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Life in the Forest Phonemic Awareness: Substitute Phonemes Add Final Phonemes /t/, /d/, /ed/ Blend and Segment Phonemes Phonics: Long u (CVCe) Long e (CVCe) Inflected Endings -ed Comprehension: Author’s Purpose Preview the Text Grammar: One and More Than One Writing Trait: Voice Sight Words: around, find, food, grow, under, water Spelling Words: cube, cute, flute, huge, mule, rude, rule,

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Disney Cruise Day 1 (Aboard the Disney Wonder)

Day 1 of our first Disney Cruise is now in the books. It was much too cold to embark on the water activities, but the dolphins swimming in the bay (and ice cream) made being outside a bit bearable. The evacuation drill outside in the chilling weather made me appreciate what it must have been like to be in the

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