Dear Mr. _______:
Thank you for your letter of May 1. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me employment with your firm. This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it …
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Why
Thanks to Charissa Ee at The Orange Chalk for pointing me to this.
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200 page e-book that explains everything you need to know when planning your very own object lessons. It contains 90 fully developed object lesson ideas and another 200 object lesson …
As a sensitive microphone picks up smallest sounds and amplifies them, a mentor listens to the smallest details of life and helps the protégé to hear them. A mentor is primarily a listener. The best mentor is one whose “own ear is turned toward the wisdom of others, who is always open to listen, to hear, and to transform life.” …
Description
Spruce up your next scavenger hunt or photo scavenger hunt by adding some of the items in the form of riddles. Riddles may rhyme or simply present a conundrum.
Example Riddles for your Scavenger Hunt
* Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps! [River]
* What runs all day, but never walks; often …
Benjamin Franklin once said, “There are two ways to acquire wisdom; you can either buy it or borrow it. By buying it, you pay full price in terms of time and cost to learn the lessons you need to learn. By borrowing it, you go to those men and women who have already paid the price to learn the lessons …
Baptists in Russia tell the story about a group of Christians meeting in secret for Bible study in a village near Moscow. Suddenly the door of their meeting room burst open, and there stood two communist soldiers, their rifles with bayonets pointed at the Christians. One of the soldiers said, “We want to be fair about this, so if you …
For more than a year a little old cleaning woman, who lived on the wrong side of the tracks, had been trying to join a fashionable downtown church. The pastor was not eager to have a seedy looking person in faded, out-of-style clothes sitting in a pew next to his rich members. When she called for the fifth time to
It was Socrates who mentored Plato, who mentored Aristotle, who mentored Alexander the Great. Socrates described himself as, “a mid-wife assisting the labour of the mind in bringing knowledge and wisdom to birth”.
Picture a dream. While the dream is being birthed, the mentor stands over his protégé and helps him relax and endure the pain. The mentor holds the …
Let your protégé shine. An effective mentor is able to let a protégé have a few deserved moments in the sun for a job well done. The best way to make people shine is to let them be the gems they are and just provide a good setting and a little polish.
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Game Description
In this Mental Puzzle/ Brainteaser teams compete to see who can correctly identify the most babies from the clues given.
Game Materials
copy of this puzzle for each group
The Challenge
There are quadruplets at the nursery that got their blankets and their favorite stuffed animals mixed up. The nursery workers can’t even tell them apart. Can you …