Mistakes...

I know it's been a while, but I'm very excited because I just finished my student teaching so I have a TON of fun ideas to share with all of you! I will be adding so many things so soon that you will be overwhelmed with happiness! I hope that you will forgive me for the lack of posts. Meanwhile, I found this picture that might get everyone through this last week of the semester.

http://120-in-june.tumblr.com/page/56

Thank you for your continued support! 

Looking to do a good deed and/or pay it forward this holiday season? PLEASE PLEASE keep reading!! 

As many of you know I am doing my student teaching right now at an elementary school. I am in a special education classroom with 15 students ranging from kindergarten to 3rd grade. As you may have guessed, I have grown to love my class and I want to do something special for them when I leave, December 12th.

After taking to my teacher today I realized that these kids need something of their very own that they can use. Since this school is so impoverished, I would like to help my kiddos out by making each of them a fleece blanket. This will be a personal gift that I will make for them that will give them something to remember me by, and keep them warm when the heat may not always be on this winter. For some of my kiddos, this may be their only gift this year.

Doing some math, I realize that this project will cost me $150 or so. Seeing as I am a poor college student, what I am asking of you lovely people is a donation! Any amount will do! Please help me make this holiday special for my little friends 

I would like to collect the money ASAP so I can buy the fabric on sale and get to work. If you would like to help me out, send me a message on here and I will send you my address so you can mail a check!

If you have any questions please let me know!

Thank you in advance for your generosity 

 Brittany

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holidays were wonderful and that you were able to spend some quality time with family and friends! I've had the last couple days off from subbing due to a giant snowstorm that recently hit the Midwest. So during that time I've been working on updating the pages of my blog. I've been very busy, as I'm sure you all have, so you understand the lack of postings.

However, I hope to do better this year with posting things and sharing new ideas! I'll be spending a lot of time in the classroom this upcoming semester so I'll hopefully have a lot of great ideas to share!

Until then, here's a little something to tide you over:

http://nerdyteacherconfessions.edublogs.org/category/organization/

This is what the teachers call, DIY erasers! I found this idea -of course- on Pinterest. It's a great way to have students work with white board markers without fighting over which color they get. This just uses long white socks, then stick one or two dry erase markers into each one and put them into a bin. This way, students don't know what color they're getting, and they can't fight about it. Also, the "marker holders" do double as erasers. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to start out with new socks at the beginning of each school year so the students can see that they started out as clean socks, and they're not Uncle Jerry's leftovers. :)

Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone is getting all ready for Thursday's festivities! I know my family and I are. I can't wait to have a break from school and spend some time with my family and friends. For this special holiday post, I thought I would add a Thanksgiving recipe. This is one I found on one of the blogs I looked at.

This one is for making pilgrim hats! SO CUTE! For this you'll need a pack of those fudge stripe cookies. Keebler makes them, but I think any off brand would work. Then some mini Reese's cups, frosting, and some Chiclets gum.

http://lilluna.com/10-thanksgiving-goodies/

Simply turn the cookies upside down so the stripes face the plate, then put the frosting on the cookie and top it with the (unwrapped) Reese's cup and place the gum on the front as the buckle. Such a cute, festive, easy treat. Kids could do this as well!

I hope you like this idea, please feel free to look at the Holidays tab of my blog for more holiday ideas for this busy time of year!

I hope you all have a blessed holiday season and take some time to be Thankful!

Enjoy!

I'm back... For real this time!

So sorry I haven't been posting lately. It's been a crazy life. Midterms and Homecoming in the same week! Craziness = done. I'm officially caught up on all of my homework, and now it's time to get back to posting. So for those of you who are still with me, hold on! Get ready! You're about to get hit by some AWESOME teaching ideas!

Prepare yourselves!

A new post... FINALLY!

Hello there wonderful people! First of all, I hope you are all having a fantastic summer so far. For me, time is winding down and I'll be headed back to school next week! So I figured I should probably get some more posts going to get ready for the upcoming school year!

So, to start of August, here's something that I just found today:

This is an idea from another blog that I was reading. This teacher has the kids do science notebooks, and when they're working on a project and they have pieces to keep, they can put them in this folder. This is about as straight forward as it gets - it's one of those "why didn't I think of that?" things. All you have to do is glue a manila envelope (available at the dollar store) and put it in the back of a composition notebook. It may be a good idea to take the notebooks with you so you know what size envelope to get, but other than that, it's so simple!

I will definitely keep this idea in mind for future notebook projects!

For now that's it from me, but stay tuned for more postings! Also, check out my links at the top of this page for more subject specific ideas!

http://sciencenotebooking.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=24

Enjoy!

Happy Summer!

Happy [almost] summer everyone!

Mine has been eventful already thus far! I just returned from a two week mission trip to Germany last week, hence the lack of posts. However, I love this idea, and I think it'll make up for my slacking!

Ok, so everyone has read this wonderful book - I hope. If you haven't, DO IT! I saw on Pinterest, an idea to buy this book for your children, then as they go through school, have each of their teachers sign it! They can write a note or just sign their names, then you give it to them at graduation! I love this idea, especially since I wish my mom would've done this for me! I loved (almost) all my teachers growing up and I would've loved to have a keepsake like this.

I realize this isn't specifically a teaching idea, but it relates to kids, and teachers, so I figured I'd share!

More posts to come!

Enjoy!