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Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts

When I decided to teach, about 9 years ago now, little did I know that I would fall in love at the beginning of every school year and cry happy tears at the end. It has been an awesome journey! I have made so many friends (big and little!) and learned a lot. Teaching the little friends has been very rewarding and each Kilgore Cub has a special place in my heart. I truly hope that they take a piece of me with them into their future because I have a piece of each of them in my heart. 

I am blessed to have been able to teach my big friends as well! Ü Helping the teachers at CES the past 3 years with their technical issues or training them on classroom technologies has been a passion that I pursued outside of my classroom.

With that being said, I am happy to announce that I will be able to help teachers full-time starting this Fall. I am the new District Instructional Technologist for Commerce ISD! I will be in every classroom in the district working with teachers to utilize the awesome technology that we a so blessed with! So, this isn't "good bye" to any of my prior students, this is "see you in the hallways!" or "see you in your classroom!"  I'm very excited for this new adventure to begin. My heart is teaching, I just get to spread my love out over the whole district! <3

Miss Brittany is spoiling Tuck and Pancake! Mrs. Henson gave her a larger tank for the turtles and I know that they are loving the extra room! 



Not only am I cleaning out and organizing my classroom, but I am doing the same with all of my blogs. You may only subscribe to this one, but I now am authoring 4 different blogs. Yesterday, I added, removed and moved around gadgets and posted on all of my blogs. To those faithful readers, do you see the changes that I made on this one?

(Pause for a minute to check it out...)

The right side has a lot less "stuff" and I added a cool Facebook "like" gadget. On the left side, I added a "Follow me on Pinterest" tag and I added pages to my blog. I learned about pages this year (but had little time to add them) and I love the idea of having a few places to add "static" information similar to a webpage. I added the following pages:

  • 2012-2013 Class Information - I plan to use this page for my contact information, class schedule, class list, etc.
  • Professional Biography / Philosophy of Teaching - When I was awarded "Teacher of the Year" on my campus, I had to write both of these essays for the district competition. I worked very hard on them and poured out my heart on soul on those pages. I want to share a little bit of me with you.
  • Commerce ISD - This is a link to the main page of the Commerce ISD website.
I will probably think of more pages, (heck, I have a few ideas brewing already) but this is what I have for now. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think!


Yes, I admit it. I am not a neat organizer. I must take everything out and only put it back in if it's worthy. What remains goes bye-bye. See my upside down table of storage containers and baskets? Wow! It's okay, room 124 will be in tip-top shape by August 20. *fingers crossed*

Not really, I just stopped by today to drop off a few things I worked on at home and MY ROOM IS READY! Look at the SHINE on that floor! No, really...look hard because it won't last too long once I start scooting furniture and walking hundreds of miles around that room until it is PeRfEcT!


My kids were with me and they "allowed" me to move my main pieces of furniture to their homes. Ahhh, that's better!


Now, I have find some days in my calendar when I can bring at MOST only one kid with me to work in my room. 20 minutes together in my classroom and I was going BoNkErS! Why is it that I can control 22 Kindergartners in that classroom but my 8 year old and 4 year old work my last nerve? Maybe my own children need to sit in on my first day of rules and procedures! Ü

Hello Cubs! I have had a great summer so far and I pray that you have too! Today, I got to teach some teachers about how we used the iPads in our classroom last year. It was very exciting! However, it made me miss you guys very much!

I taught the workshop with Henry's dad and he mentioned that Henry was wondering how Tuck and Pancake were doing. Well, Henry, this picture is for you! They are both doing great! Be sure and come say "HI" to them at Meet the Teacher night in August.

How are my Cubs? What have you been up to? Please have your parents leave a comment and let me know how you are...I miss you!

(On a side note, I do get to catch up with some of you on occasion and I have some sad news. Our friend Karol is moving and leaving Commerce. We wish her dad the best of luck in his new job at SMU and we will miss her smiling face in the halls of CES!)

Check this out! I am so excited!

Wow, it feels like this summer is ZoOmInG by! I have been busy with the kids and leave for vacation today. Woo Hoo! I am hoping for a boring July so that I can get some things accomplished before I go back to school in August. But, I have been busy on the things that really can wait. . .I designed a button for you to grab! Put it on your blog today. :)