If you follow me on Twitter you know that yesterday was a super exciting day for me as I received my keys and could get into my classroom for the very first time! Now this classroom wasn’t completely new to me as I completed my last two student teaching placements at “S-School” and had been in that classroom multiple times. In fact, the teacher that was in this room before helped me out TREMENDOUSLY in regards to planning resources and support! Got my classroom keys! So excited 🙂 This was the first time, however, that I… Read More
300 Follower Giveaway Winner!!
After a whirlwind few days my 300 Follower Giveaway is officially over! I was fortunate enough to have the love and support of some amazing edubloggers who sponsored this giveaway and offered up some wonderful prizes. Please check out their blogs if you haven’t already. Our winner is… Chelsea! Congrats Chelsea, I am sending an email your way 🙂 Thank you to everyone who entered and supported me through this! Here’s to reaching 400 🙂
Classroom Library (Almost) Open for Business!
An important job for any teacher is not only developing literacy skills but also attempting to build a love of reading within their students. One tool to help achieve this monstrous task is through your classroom library. While all school’s have (or should have) a central library, a classroom library provides easy access for your students and is often utilized on a daily basis. I absolutely LOVE reading (for pleasure and for work) and often complete 10-12 novels for pleasure each year. As such, I want to try to instill this love of reading within my… Read More
The Earth's Crust Resources
Back in May I shared some of my planning that I had done for my Interactions with Ecosystems unit for my Grade 7 Science class. While the planning has continued, I realized today that I haven’t shared anything more through the blog. The Grade 7 Science curriculum consists of four different units so I thought that I would simply go in order and share the next unit’s resources: The Earth’s Crust. The Dynamic Earth Smithsonian Interactive. (2013). Uploaded by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Available online at: http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html I actually had a difficult time planning… Read More
Resources To Start Off Your Week 70
It is hard to believe that school is going to be starting again in LESS than two months. For my American followers, you are going to be back even sooner! Summer always seemed to be so long and now that I am planning for my own classroom there definitely doesn’t seem to be enough time! As I’m prepping, I’m still finding a lot of resources for the classroom and it lends itself well to sharing through my blog. As always, I will be adding these to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites page! 1 ) Commonsense… Read More
"Miss L" Becomes "Mrs T"
On June 29th I married my best friend and fellow teacher, “Mr. T”. We were married at his parent’s farm, which is only a mile down the road from our farm. It was +30 degrees Celsius and both the ceremony and reception were outside; it was so humid but at least it didn’t rain! The day was so perfect, we couldn’t have asked for a better day and are so thankful to everyone who helped make our day so special. Our photographer, PhotOGGraphy by Vicki, also took our engagement pictures last August. Our photos were taken at my fiance’s uncle’s farm… Read More
Mad Science 2
As you may know, I will be teaching both Grade 7 & Grade 8 science in the upcoming school year. As I work my way through my planning for the year I am consistently working towards making my lessons relevant and meaningful for the students in my classroom. It is important to me that my students get excited about what they are learning and can be self-motivated when it comes to experiments and research projects. As such, I have been looking for new and interesting ways to introduce information to my students as well as resources to engage… Read More
Blog, Website, or Both?
Our school year begins in less than two months and I am spending this summer trying to get as organized as possible. In addition to the million-and-one things that are required of teachers, I know that I want to have my students blogging as well as have a classroom website. I have two science classes, Grade 7 & Grade 8, who I want to start blogging projects with. These are two of my smaller classes as I am nervous that I will get too overwhelmed if I tried to get ALL 7 of my different subject-area… Read More
300 Follower Giveaway!!
The last three months have included a lot of personal milestones for me including: – Obtaining my 1st teaching job – Graduating with my Bachelor of Education Degree – Being appointed to the ManACE Board – Getting married I realize that, at times, this has meant that my blogging frequency has dropped and/or been a bit sporadic. I promise that this is not permanent, however, and will be back into a regular routine again starting TODAY! In fact, the past few weeks specifically have also marked some exciting blogging milestones as well! I am so happy… Read More
My Thoughts On Feedly
I only started using Google Reader in January of 2012; I was in my first year in the Faculty of Education when I was introduced to it in one of our program’s ICT courses. At first, I hadn’t really recognized the value of the service as I really only used my computer for social media, email, and school research (no seriously, that’s ALL I used it for!). After beginning my blogging adventure, however, I was quickly addicted to the site as it was so easy to organize and keep track of the 200+ sites I began following on… Read More