Author: Kirsten Thompson

Substitute Teaching in "T-Division" 4

     Last Friday I was very fortunate to be called in to substitute teach in “T-Division” again! If you missed some of my earlier posts I am working full-time with Children’s disABILITY Services this summer but I asked for every Friday off so I could still have opportunities to substitute teach and network within the school divisions in our area. In our area, school is done this week so I knew that Friday would be my last time to substitute teach this year and I am really happy I was able to get one last day before school is out.… Read More

Resources to Start Off Your Week 23

     This week I found two awesome resources to start off your week! One is the perfect one-stop-shop for adding new ideas into your classroom and the other is a great new way to use Google! As always, I will be adding these to my ever-growing list of ed resources under my Fav Websites page. 1 ) Teacher Tipster– Organized by Dustin Smith, Teacher Tipster is a jackpot of helpful tips for   teachers including lesson plans, classroom management strategies, classroom   organization, printables and videos. – The Teacher Tipster YouTube channel, click the videos tab on the website, has   almost 100… Read More

One Lovely Blog Award

     I’m so excited to have received ANOTHER blog award! I’d like to thank Becca at Fun 4th Resources for awarding me the One Lovely Blog Award.      Becca’s blog is a trove of amazing ed resources and ideas. She has been blogging for almost two years and shares some great classroom project ideas. If you aren’t already one of her almost 600 followers I definitely recommend you stop on over and check her blog out! To keep the love going, here are the rules:1 ) Follow the person that gave you the award if you don’t already2 ) Link… Read More

Official WBT "Blog Bug"

I have exciting news! Chris Biffle got a hold of me yesterday (yes, Coach B!) and offered me a position with WBT as the  Official WBT Blog Bug. I’ll be using this logo on my blog when I’m posting about WBT blogs! I will be working with the wonderful Misty from Think, Wonder & Teach and Melissa from WBT with Scrapbunny on all things WBT blog related! Not only will we be continuously networking with all the wonderful WBT bloggers out there but we will also be in charge of updating the ever-growing list of WBT blogs.  Together, we will be creating a brand new up-to-date blog list… Read More

Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday! WBT Certification Program

     Want to be certified as an official Whole Brain Teaching Certified Instructor? Then the Whole Brain Teaching Certification program is for you!         Unfortunately, I haven’t really been on the ball with this program quite yet, although I’ve been enviously watching everyone else post about it regularly this summer. For some reason my computer or internet connection would not format either the live web casts by Mr. Biffle or the WBT Certification PDF so I was left with minimal information.      But that is all in the past now because the wonderful Director of WBT Certification, Nancy Stoltenberg, has set me… Read More

Liebster Blog Love

     About a week ago I posted that I had recieved one of my first blog awards, the Liebster Blog Award, from Ms. Julie aka Southern Teacher. I was so excited and still am! Since then I have seen this blog award floating around some other amazing blogs that I have followed for quite some time and it is such an honour to be included with them in this award.      Since that time, I was re-awarded this blog by both Roxi Shayne and Nancy Stoltenberg! Now both of these wonderful ladies have AMAZING Whole Brain Teaching blogs that I have… Read More

Resources to Start Off Your Week 22

     For some of you out there this may be your LAST Monday of the school year! If so, I am sending best wishes to you as your wrap up your school year. I know that some of you have been on summer break for a while already, while some more of you (I’m thinking of some of my Aussie friends) just started classes a while back.Well no matter where you are in your school year, this website should be a great resource for all of us!     As always, I will be adding this to my Fav Websites page πŸ™‚… Read More

Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday! WBT Blogs Part 2

         I had full intentions of writing this post yesterday as I had the evening off of work, but thanks to a wonderful thunder storm our power went off for the evening right after supper! So even though it is one day late, here is this week’s Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday… Thursday post πŸ™‚      After the success of my post about Whole Brain Teaching blogs I received a ton of emails about other great WBT blogs that should be added to the list! Thats one of the GREAT things about WBT, the support from other teachers is incredible!! So… Read More

Resources to Start Off Your Week 21

     I found two GREAT Resources to Start Off Your Week that can add so much to our student’s classroom experiences. Both of these websites have so many possibilities in our classrooms and can be used for Social Studies, English, History, Geography, World Issues, Math, etc! As always, I will be adding these to the lists under my Fav Websites page. 1 ) Women in World History– Created by The Center for History & New Media (CHNM), this website houses   a collection of primary documents, support materials and lesson plans centered    around women and women’s issues throughout world history.–… Read More

Substituting in "T-Division" 3

     On Friday I was able to have another substitute teaching day in “T-Division”! I have already had some experience with the division as I was able to substitute teach in an English classroom and in a Grade 2/3 classroom in their French Immersion school a few weeks ago. This time, however, I was in a K-12 school only about 15 minutes from our house. I was so excited because this is a school that I might be applying for a job in next spring! (I have actually even applied to do one of my student teaching placements in this school… Read More