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My adventures as a young urban teacher

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Week 3 Complete
I am so excited that Week 3 was over. I haven’t posted much this week b/c it was hectic. We have to start sending progress reports and talking to parents about their child’s progress in the class. So, as you can imagine, when I get home, I Read More...
A few tidbits
On yesterday, I went home within 30 minutes of the school day ending. I thought I’d go home and take a nap and dilly dally around the house. But I was bored out of my mind. I called all of my friends and they were all busy or didn’t answer Read More...
Inspiration Days
One day when I was really down about my students and teaching, David popped up and gave me some ideas. He suggested that I try to give my students motivation or inspiration. At first, I thought, “That’s not my job, that’s their mama’s Read More...
Where have I been?
I have been busier than a dog with flees!!! I’ve been trying to catch up on paperwork. I feel like I’m drowing in it. Failure reports, lesson plans, parental contacts, conferences. . . it never ends. But, I have learned to organize myself Read More...
Using foldables . . .
So, I’m still trying create a classroom that fully engages students. On Wednesday, we made vocabulary foldable for our unit on the early Middle Ages. It was sort of babyish activity for the kids, but I think they really liked it and preferred it Read More...
Student Products
Remember, I told you a few days ago that I was having my students rewrite children’s songs with our subject matter. Here are two of the student products. I figure I can show them b/c they do not have any of the students names AND the student’s Read More...
The itsy bitsy spider
I wanted to review how my lesson with my 5th period went today. I gave each of the students a topic and a children’s song title. My instructions were to remix/rewrite the children’s song using the topic assigned. These high school freshman Read More...
Let’s get a little bit rowdy, R-O-W-D-Y
  I am at another basketball game; therefore, I get the opportunity to write for my blog. Thanksgiving break has already started!!! I was so excited about the break that I did my Turkey Dance for the students. They loved it! Some of them did it with Read More...