Day Tripper Mom

- Email: jeanette@daytrippermom.com

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Jeanette Knaub is a wife and an at-home mom to four children; Jackson (17), Eliana (15), Amalia (13), and Lilah (8). During the school year, she works part time as a Classroom Aide. In what little spare time is left, she enjoys volunteering at church and community organizations, reading, running, and of course researching and blogging about her family’s next trip!

OFF-TOPIC: Tech for Teachers Week #4

Photo by Tyler Lastovich Have you ever gotten so engrossed in a project or activity that it was hard to tear yourself away or you became oblivious to outside distractions? Perhaps you have entered “flow!” Richard Byrne tackled this fascinating subject related to character building in digital citizenship. This day…

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OFF-TOPIC: Tech for Teachers Week #3

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Have you ever thought about incorporating freehand drawing elements into your lessons and presentations as a teacher? Digital sketching is a fun and useful tool to create simple illustrations or annotations into text. You can even teach your students to use these…

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OFF-TOPIC: Tech for Teachers Week #2

Thank you for joining me for Week 2 of Tech for Teachers! Have you ever gotten a notification that your iCloud storage is full because of all the pictures in your camera roll? Think of the average tween and teen today that owns a phone. The sheer number of pictures…

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OFF TOPIC: Tech for Teachers Week #1

Welcome to my Tech for Teachers Weekly Blog first official post! I have chosen to subscribe to the following two blogs per our assignment:                 AskaTechTeacher.com by Jacqui Murray      &nbsp…

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OFF TOPIC: Tech for Teachers Weekly Blog

Welcome to my Tech for Teachers Weekly Blog! My name is Jeanette and I will be taking you on a tour of some of the latest and greatest tech tools and resources you can use in the classroom right away. For my regular daytrippermom readers, this will be a divergence…

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Fun Freebies in Center City Philadelphia

I have spent a good amount of time wandering around Center City Philadelphia over the years and I’ve discovered you don’t need to do much planning to take a trip there. It can be enough to just show up and walk around on a beautiful day. Maybe you…

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Jim Thorpe

Sometimes I am still amazed at the plethora of unique and delightful little places there are to explore in southeastern PA.  Want to take in the fall foliage at its peak?  A relatively quick drive and you can immerse yourself in color in the “little Switzerland” of America…

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Penn’s Landing–Philadelphia

For those of you whose idea of a great vacation must include some type of waterfront, a day trip to Philadelphia can meet that need when you visit Penn’s Landing.  Encompassing the space between Front Street and the Delaware River starting at Spring Garden Street down to Washington Avenue…

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Gettysburg

For some reason, in my mind, old battlefields look and feel more nostalgic in the throes of autumn.  Crisp air, cerulean skies, warm-colored hues abounding and my mind turns to historical destinations.  So when the perfect fall weekend was predicted, I suddenly felt inspired to…

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OFF TOPIC: My Anemia, Hysterectomy, and Umbilical Hernia Repair Story–1 year later

I know this post has nothing to do with daytripping but this website is the only one I own and I wanted to get my story out there for those that might be researching these topics and need some encouragement and information. I hope I can be of help! I…

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