A new challenge has arisen concerning the storage of my iPad® accessories. I love having the little place in the shower caddy for the plugs and cords and headphones. But the earbud cords have become a tangled mess! While mulling over this problem, I spotted a piece of an old pool noodle in my cabinet […]
Overwhelmed
It was one of those days. It wasn’t even ten o’clock in the morning, and I’d already had to mop a flooded laundry room, clean up bright blue paint that spilled during my kindergartner’s art project, sweep up the contents of the box of cereal that my toddler had spilled all over the kitchen floor […]
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent-teacher conference time can be one of the most eye-opening weeks of the school year. Yes, I know it requires long hours on the part of the teacher, but having the chance to personally connect with each child’s parents is invaluable. This year, our school used SignUpGenius to schedule our conferences. It was wonderful! Each […]
iPads® Have Been Eye Opening (Part 2)
As soon as I received four iPads® for my classroom, I started brainstorming ways to use them. As I added apps from technology conferences, scoured the internet, and read other people’s blogs, I quickly came to realize that I needed a way to organize the apps on the iPad so that they would be easy […]
Loving TTO!
TTO stands for Teacher Tools Online. It’s a resource created by BJU Press to make it easier to integrate technology into your lessons. At first, it included only math and science, but this year English and reading were released as well. It is so nice to have a tool that already matches up with your […]
Life Is More Than a Bucket
Recently I came across a blog post that introduced me to the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. The basic concept is that each one of us carries an invisible bucket around. We can be either bucket fillers by choosing to fill others’ buckets with kind words and good deeds, or […]
Puppet Games and a Writing Project
The first big writing project in English has the children writing a paragraph that gives directions for a game. Each student chooses a game and then writes simple directions on how to play it. I get descriptions of all kinds of games from tic-tac-toe to soccer to four square. The main thing is that the […]