New and Exciting Changes....

Ok.....I have been a terrible blogger recently.  I really wanted to update my blog at least once every two weeks and I kind of dropped off the face of the earth around February. Let's just say I was trying to survive my year of teaching 5th grade!!! Here is the great news....I made it!!! I ended up the year on a high note and I had the most stressful as well as one of the best teaching years I have had since I began teaching. I learned so much about classroom management and curriculum and I am so glad that I had the experience of teaching a regular education classroom. However, I am sure you have noticed that the name of my blog has changed. That is right ladies and gentlemen, I am returning to the wonderful world of special education.  To make a long story short, due to budget cuts and teacher transfers I was asked to return as an EC teacher being that we had an opening in our school. Though I was extremely heart broken to leave my wonderful team of 5th grade teachers, I am very excited to teach EC once again and what is even more exciting is that I will be teaching with my mom!! So, I am in the process of adding and making changes to the blog so be on the look out for some new resources and great things. I PROMISE I am going to do better about being consistent with blogging!!!
SO................What have I been up to since school let out?
I have been teaching summer school for the third graders in my school. If you are not familiar with the Read to Achieve Law in North Carolina then click below to find out more!

I had a break in teaching Summer School the first week of July and was given the opportunity to attend the ISTE conference in Atlanta ,GA.  This was the best conference I have ever attended and I learned more about implementing technology in the classroom than I can even keep up with. I got to attend some excellent sessions and meet some very incredible educators. I will be adding a technology in the classroom page very soon so be on the lookout on the blog! Check out my pictures below of some things I did while in Atlanta!!

GO BRAVES

Best onion ring I ever ate!

 I promise I did some other things besides go to baseball games and eat greasy food.  The next set of pictures are from where I went to a presentation on Class Flow.  First of all, this program is FREE!! Yes, FREE and extremely interactive.  Please click the Class Flow picture below to check it out. But....the best part of the presentation was talking with Ron Clark and sitting with his students to learn how to use Class Flow!

I did many more things but the last thing I would like to share was meeting Greg Tang! Let me tell you, I have never sat through a more interesting 90 minute session and all the guy used was a lumens camera, a piece of paper, a sharpie marker, and his website.  He was hilarious and gave me some awesome resources. Check out his website below by clicking on the picture. There are so many things to do on his site but the best part is that any online game can be printed and made into a math center so please take some time to explore the site.  Also, he took a picture with the teachers from our county and even tweeted us!!!

Check out Greg Tang Math!!!