Happy Friday!
I cannot wait for some downtime with the family. Tomorrow I get to wash cars with our oldest to raise money for the band while hubby takes the other children to a cousin's birthday. We'll finally meet up for lunch. All of the kids and I will get to see the last free beach movie at the beach.
Beach, sunset, free movies, reasonable concession prices, entertainers, an evening of family fun for 4 for less than $20...it doesn't get much better than that!
How do you reconnect with your family over the weekend? What fun time treasures did you discover over the summer?
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Shopping Spree
My Dear Husband bought me a gift card for Lakeshore Learning Store. At first, though I am ashamed to admit it, I thought, "what on earth is a high school teacher going to find there?"
I thought a little more.
I have been blessed with a husband who gives gifts to express love. I had a rough year last year and changed schools and subjects in an attempt to recapture my love for teaching. He wanted me to have nice, coordinated things around the room so that I would feel loved and accepted in my new environment. Rejecting his gift would be tantamount to rejecting him.
Today, I finally took him up on his offer. I purchased the following items:
How do you create a welcome learning environment for your students? If someone gave you a gift card to aid in that purpose, where would you shop, and what would you want?
I thought a little more.
I have been blessed with a husband who gives gifts to express love. I had a rough year last year and changed schools and subjects in an attempt to recapture my love for teaching. He wanted me to have nice, coordinated things around the room so that I would feel loved and accepted in my new environment. Rejecting his gift would be tantamount to rejecting him.
Today, I finally took him up on his offer. I purchased the following items:
- fade-resistant paper to line and create boards around the room
- a couple of coordinated bulletin board sets
- coordinated letters
- matching borders
- a record and planning book
- 150 "happy birthday" certificates
- and several dozen recognition certificates.
How do you create a welcome learning environment for your students? If someone gave you a gift card to aid in that purpose, where would you shop, and what would you want?
Monday, August 5, 2013
First Attempt
Wow! I have a blog. I am officially a blogger. I am a teacher, mother, and wife in the middle of the process of starting a website (iheartteachers.org), and in this process, I have grown exponentially in my technical abilities. In just a few short years, I will know nearly as much as my 13 year old son knows now.
I have waded clumsily into the waters of the world wide web and have established rudimentary presences on fb, Twitter, g+, Pinterest, and here. (If I have learned anything from my high school students, it is shameless self-promotion: follow me! like me!) My goal for this week is to have a logo so that I can begin pulling my "social media strategy" into some semblance of coherence. Right now, my "strategy" is to congratulate myself for having accounts and hope that I can log back in with my logo.
Why a website, social media, and blog if I'm beaming at rudimentary? I have a goal, a driving desire to unite teachers and the education community around the world to enable collaboration and provide support and appreciation. To accomplish that, I have to create a real-time environment. The ends merit the means (even if it means the teachers I heart the most are my adolescent children).
Teachers, professors, students, parents, and members of the education community, I am willing to sacrifice both pride and dignity to show you appreciation.
When do you feel appreciated? I myself like a good swag bag. Today I scored a haul by going to training. The district gave me a bag, binder, notebook, pencil case, highlighters, pens, and sticky notes. (Oh, and I learned quite a bit about the new curriculum I'll be teaching this year too.)
I will post pictures as soon as I find the best way.
I have waded clumsily into the waters of the world wide web and have established rudimentary presences on fb, Twitter, g+, Pinterest, and here. (If I have learned anything from my high school students, it is shameless self-promotion: follow me! like me!) My goal for this week is to have a logo so that I can begin pulling my "social media strategy" into some semblance of coherence. Right now, my "strategy" is to congratulate myself for having accounts and hope that I can log back in with my logo.
Why a website, social media, and blog if I'm beaming at rudimentary? I have a goal, a driving desire to unite teachers and the education community around the world to enable collaboration and provide support and appreciation. To accomplish that, I have to create a real-time environment. The ends merit the means (even if it means the teachers I heart the most are my adolescent children).
Teachers, professors, students, parents, and members of the education community, I am willing to sacrifice both pride and dignity to show you appreciation.
When do you feel appreciated? I myself like a good swag bag. Today I scored a haul by going to training. The district gave me a bag, binder, notebook, pencil case, highlighters, pens, and sticky notes. (Oh, and I learned quite a bit about the new curriculum I'll be teaching this year too.)
I will post pictures as soon as I find the best way.
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