Last year

This last year flew by! I had every intention of posting a blog without fail at least once a week, but well... you know how good intentions go. So here's a shot gun blast of the year in one short blog.

The big highlight of the year in my room was the entrance of the Promethean board. This interactive white board allows me , and my kids to be a little bit like Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report. But, instead of solving murders before they happen, we are solving math problems and learning about calendar. The kids we absolutely transfixed whenever we sat down to play with... I mean use this great learning tool. Later in the year we even were able to use remote voters that are linked to the board through Bluetooth. The kids sit at their desk and send in their vote on an answer for a problem we were working on. Fun was had by all!
I was extremely honored this year to be selected as Woodcrest's teacher of the year. I was in shock when my name was announced in the staff meeting. I came into teaching through the back door and felt like I would just make do in this new job until I could find my real focus in a career. Well, ten years later and I have come to this place of humble gratitude to the Lord for his work in my life as well as to the incredible people that I work with for all that they have taught me. The classroom has become a real home for me. Thanks everyone!

OK... So I am really going to try and keep up on my blogging this year. I think I am going to take more of a practical slant on things. My good friend Susie Wren has a blog called "let's vent" where we deal with some of the structural things in education. I think that I am going to try and focus on more of the practical day to day issues with the kids and what I am learning with them. So, off we go!