Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Career Unit!!!!

Well that was fun... My guidance counselor and I teamed up to do a whole career unit for Social Studies. The students interviewed different people about their jobs and reported back to the class. We found out about some cool jobs like a ski patrolman and a biologist!

We took a "test" to see what kind of smarts they had and brainstormed a list of jobs that would fall under each category: People Smart, Self Smart, Number Smart, Word Smart, Picture Smart, Music Smart, or Body Smart.

After gathering information the students decided what they wanted to be...for now at least!!! We drew a picture of ourselves on these cute acorns to go along with the darling poem!
We did a 3 paragraph report on what they wanted to be, tools they needed to have, and what they might need to study and be good at in order to do their job. This will be put on a poster along with their picture from our dress up day. The kiddos really seemed to enjoy all the fun!!!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Blogging....Fail

I was determined to be a blogger, but alas, I believe I fail. In my very little free time with teaching, coaching, and raising two boys i find myself always looking at everyone else's fantabulous blogs instead of keeping up with my own! I hope to rectify this in the New Year, but for now I just want to thank all the fantastic bloggers out there for sharing such great ideas. It has really helped my year while lightening my checkbook!!!

Friday, September 16, 2011

Time...Where does it go????

Does anyone else wonder where in the world time goes???? I have decided there aren't enough hours in the day (although some hours seem endless!) This week seemed long (maybe because it was our first full 5 day week), however every day seemed to fly by before I even got to what I had planned for the day.

My day starts early by getting myself ready before trying to get a four year old ready to catch a bus (refuses to ride with his mom to school!) and a two year old ready and off to daycare. Rush through the day only to run out with the kids because I am insane and coach junior high girls basketball as well. After basketball I often have my son's kindersoccer team to coach and finally get home to cook dinner and try to get everyone settled and in bed to start the day over again.

My school days are still chaotic with the new scheduling. I either have days with multiple preps (yea!) or NO preps (Ahhh!). One of these days I will figure out how to slow time down...or is it that I just need to slow myself down?

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Excited about the silly things...like a classroom door!



That's right...I have been obsessed with my classroom door since I started getting ready. Now, aren't there more important things to be doing to get ready for a new school year besides decorating a classroom door?



It seems that once I find a theme I tend to go crazy with it. I have owls everywhere...including my file cabinet...




Oh and there's more...jobs, poster, and even my lunch counts...



Trying to enter the blogging world...

I have been so inspired by all the amazing blogs out there that I wanted to try and join in the fun! So please bear with me as I dive into this new world!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Summer Begins!

Here it is summer has begun and what am I doing.....? Well let's see:
Still working in my room (for A)
Rehearsing like crazy for Peter Pan (for 2)
and let's not forget...
Going to school for a second Masters!!!!!!

Sounds like fun right?????

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Starting Another Masters!!!!

Yes, I must be crazy.... I am starting a second masters program. I am working toward a Masters in Educational Technology.

I am very excited for this program as I am a wannabe tech geek!