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Daycare babies playing with bubbles

My 4th hour English 10, a tough crowd to get to smile! 😛

We are so busy reading!

Here’s a student who created a poster.

Look how big it is! Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

Working one-on-one with a student on his marketing proposal in the Writing Center!

Helping make the homemade ice cream

One student asked me to take a picture with her on my last day!

Students were really engaged, almost climbing over one another to write their ideas on the board!

Having a good laugh with my honors kids 🙂

Teaching poetry as a volunteer in Forest City High School.

Taking turns mixing

Hangin’ with the Writing Center Crew

Attaching poems to construction paper for some color.

Here’s one student’s Fakebook profile for her wolf.

Math game

Brainstorming some ideas.

Creating a poster with glitter, of course!

Honors 10, period 6!

Having a celebration for the two boys our class tutored all semester.

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.

My cooperating teacher and I set up the desks to be in semi-circles. That allowed teachers and parents to be in closer proximity.

Kindergartners working on math

What is the Old Man and the Sea about?

Taking a dance break with our student!

Counting animal crackers

Shaving cream letters and numbers!

This student did a Prezi.

Here are two students cutting and pasting their poems on poster board to hang in the classroom!

Decorating poems and poster boards!

Students had fun with this activity!

This was my creative student, who used (and introduced me to) Smore to make a newsletter.

Discussion groups for TKAM

Me and my first placement (Mason City High School) cooperating teacher, Deadra Stanton. A wonderful woman and wonderful experience!

Students talked and gathered quotations

Small-group reading

Working individually with a student.

A collaborative, movable classroom for discussion on role of women, Marin and Alicia in House on Mango Street.

A little ice-cream treat

Room with colored, movable desks

Now that the students formed groups of different colors, they had the responsibility of sharing their information with the rest of their group members!

At first the activity was a little awkward. Students got up and weren’t sure what to do, as I hadn’t given them a clear set of directions.

My focus for conferences was to appear confident, knowledgeable about each student, and give excellent eye contact.

PJ Day at Forest City Middle School!

Goofing around on my last day!

Kinesthetic learning

Silent discussion about friendship.

I was able to join in on the discussion and give information, feedback, comments, and pose questions.

Selfie with my 2nd period!

Me and my fellow student teachers at our post-grad dinner!

Explaining the assignment and homework.

Helping one of the groups brainstorm quotes/examples of the Radley House/Story Progression.

Me and some of my fellow classmates serving food at the North Iowa Food Kitchen.

Explaining an assignment to some students who missed class.

Goofing around with my eighth graders, period 3

Collaborative discussions

Goofing around with my period 6 eighth graders

Our class [teachers] with our little boys! Bronson, age 10 on the left and Blake, age 7 on the right.

Balloons from my high schoolers!

Two of my Kindergartners playing ‘Top It’ before heading to lunch.

Posing with our Norton textbooks on my last day!

My ‘I Can’ board with our latest standards added!

Being goofy

Long Night Against Procrastination at Waldorf College

Creating the Eiffel Tower out of canned/boxed food.

My Classroom with ‘I Can’ Standards hung in the front. I created this to hold the standards/statements for students to view every day.

Taking turns writing on the board.

The tower of canned/boxed food items students created in their Dugout! All donated for the Food bank!

Working individually with student tutoring

Working one-on-one with a student.

Here we defined what friendship meant to us as a preview to our reading in House on Mango Street.

Hands-on learning

Integration of technology and teaching

Working together on projects

Visual adding

I’ve even helped with math!

My English 10 students created ‘Morrie Poems,’ about the influential people in their lives.

Working on the writing portions or interactive portions of the project in class.

Having desks next to one another rather than across allowed for a more comfortable, approachable environment.

Talking with a group, giving them some feedback and asking questions.

Working on revising

One-on-one reading

Circle-rug time

Smiles 🙂 with eighth graders

Getting images for their poems; gluing poems to the poster board.

Enjoying some home-made ice cream

Here are the crests, hung and ready on the walls into the library/my classroom.