When I began this course I never imagined all the things I would get from it. I knew what a blog was, yet I had no idea. I now love the idea of a blog. I look forward to posting new things I learn as I finish up my degree and when I become a teacher. I think blogs could be so helpful the keep teachers a head of the game and up on the new things. Sharing the knowledge after all isn't the what teachers want to do.

I have enjoyed the blog so much I am considering starting another one about being achieving a healthy mind, body, and soul. I use Facebook to sped the word but I don't think it reaches people the way I would like to.

Thank you so much to Sheri and my fellow classmates for making this one of my favorite classes thus far. Good luck to all of you I hope you have a wonderful summer.

Here is a quote I like that I think we all get side tracked and forget to do sometimes.

I made a story using My Story Maker. I think the was a great website other then the fact that you are unable to download or save your story. Instead you have to share a link to the website. However for free it is great. I think students could have a really great time with the different choices for creating a book. It had a wide variety of characters and settings. I would use this in my classroom as a creative learning aid.

The name of my story is 'The Genie who made Friends with a Witch". When you click on the link you will need this code to look at my story. MTP331

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/embed.cfm?magicCode=MTP331

I chose to make a story cube. About the book my children and I just finished ready. The Harry Potter series has been so fun to read.

Educational Sites

I found that there are a lot of educational sites out there. I found the Khan Academy a very helpful and interesting site. This site is free which is always nice when your a teacher. I found it to be helpful that is had sections for students, teachers, and parents. I think sometime parents are left off of sites like these. But I feel the parents are a vital part of a child's learning process. I especially liked the section about learning to be a coach. It was very easy to register and get going. It is geared for beginning at 3rd grade and older.

I also found that OpenED to also be a very helpful website. I has things for kindergarten thru 12th grade. It is free and easy to sign up. It has material for all general subjects. It can help with organizing, homework, assessments, lesson planning, and activity.

I came across this wonderful article on Facebook and wanted to share it with you all. I hope someday to be this wonderful of a teacher and change children's live just like this. It breaks my heart to think about what some of these young innocent children are going through.

This is the link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/colorado-teacher-shares-heartbreaking-notes-graders/story?id=30368103

A little Inspiration

I found this very enlightening. I would like to find a poster of this for my classroom someday!

Mind Mapping

This is my Mind Map of Chapter 11