YOU are the molders of their dreams

For those who have no taken Health 4100, we watched a movie on Guy Doud. He was a teacher of the year from Brainard, MN. He was able to meet Ronald Reagon while he was in office after winning his teacher of the year award. Reagon read this poem to Doud.
This poem was read to Guy Doud by Ronald Reagan (Author Unknown).

Teachers

You are the molders of their dreams
The gods who build or crush
Their young beliefs of right or wrong.
You are the spark that sets aflame
The poet's hand or lights the flame
Of some great singer's song.
You are the god of the young, the very young
You are the guardian of a million dreams
Your every smile or frown
Can heal or pierce the heart
You are a hundred lives, a thousand lives.
Yours the pride of loving them
And the sorrow too.
Your patient work, your touch
Make you the gods of hope
Who fill their souls with dreams
To make those dreams come true.

TIME for kids...

TIME for Kids
The news is an ugly thing in the world...Mostly, there are reports on all the bad things and people in the world. Although the news is so ugly sometimes, it's important for our students to stay current on what's happening in the world. While researching for a class I came across TIME for Kids. This is a safe place for students to find news that is in there understanding and screened from most of the ugly. If you get a chance, explore it a little.

Useful Things From Home

As many of you have probably already figured out... PINTEREST is AMAZING!
There are so many ideas floating around in the cyber world, and this website allows people to try and push great ideas together to share! I've posted a couple pictures of things I will someday use in my future classroom and they are created from things we have in our homes. "Trash" to some... but to me I say, "Make this trash into treasures baby!"

First up, the bottom of any soda bottle. 16 oz, 2 liter, whatever! It could be used to create cherry blossoms but it really cute be used for any type of paint art! :) Let those kids be creative.

This I thought was great as well. Clothes pins with thumb tacks hot glued to the back. Stick those babies in the cork board and this should make changing up posters, art work, papers or any kind EASIER.

How cute are these monsters....:) Aww.. Made out of finished tissue boxes!! 

We have those at home right?

Finally, the cute little race cars made from finished tissue rolls. (Now I KNOW you have those.) Kids could get really creative coming up with the looks and designs of there car.

As teachers we aren't going to have money thrown at us to buy things for our classroom. We are going to have to learn how to be creative with what we have sometimes. These are things we and our students should have in there homes.

I would suggest that at the beginning of the school year create a list of things that are used at home that normally go to the trash. Ask students and parents to donate those certain items to the classroom. Things should trickle in throughout the year and be valuable things you can use in your classroom.

Lesson Plan Orgnaization!

Lesson Plans... our life will be FULL of them once we get teaching!! We are maybe even staring to feel the heat now. This semester in Human Relations we are getting the opportunity to view our classmates lesson plans! Like our professor said, what a great opportunity to "steal" good lesson plans!! Plus, you put all that hard work into creating the lesson plan and it's kind of  nice you can share it like a "gift" to your classmates? Right?? I started a big pile of lessons over the last year and today I decided to get ORGANIZED about it!  I bought these tab dividers on sale for 75% off! 

($1.25 total) 

Seriously consider looking at stores for all the clearance back to school stuff! Not just for now but for your future classrooms. I've started a "classroom box" of things I find that I want in my future classroom! Most of the decorations and personalization of your classroom is going to come out of your pocket anyways!!! Spread out the spending. ;-)  Just saying... 

Anyways, back to the lesson plan binder! I put these tabs into a binder and as I come across lesson plans I want to keep I just print them out, hole punch, and stick them behind the tab that represents the grade the lesson is created for. Easy as that! Now I haven't gone near organizing per-subject within each grade, but eventually! 

 

I highly recommend this and think you might appreciate it down the road too! :)

After I look at this post I think... Do you like GREEN much??? :)

Keep Calm and Carry On

Verna has inspired me to start up my blog again. I started this blog during a Math Methods class as an assignment. But I need to be better about keeping it up for more than just math things! :) Thanks Verna.

I made this video for my Human Relations class... Sometimes it's important to just "keep calm" and we all do that differently...