Cyber Monday Sale!

Cyber Monday is almost here!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Bilingual-Blooms

So I will have a sale in every item in my little bitty store at TeachersPayTeachers.

It is so little because it is very hard to work full time, be a mother full time, and write full time!

Wow!

I am so grateful for so many of my colleagues that do manage to post their wonderful lesson plans! Thank you! I really appreciate all your wonderful work!

It is tricky to manage, so yes, I have been writing, and I almost have brand new material to post, so please check my store in the following week, but life keeps happening and family comes first!

So my little bitty store will have a sale starting tomorrow Sunday through Tuesday!
Wishing that every reader that stumbles onto my unpredictable blog has a wonderful, happy, and full of humor holidays, whichever holidays you enjoy the most! I celebrate as many of my holidays as I can so you know!

Looping to the Next Grade Level

Educational Looping is all about the students you are teaching!

I decided to loop this year with my Kindergarteners to First Grade, what a joy! We were able to move on from Day 1 of school. We have gone to school 50 days and they have already grown up.

Their writing is getting more sophisticated, their drawings are getting more detailed, and when we do mathematics their ideas are expanding past the 100 number. I am very excited to have such a great group of students and learned that their families have been very supportive by accepting me as their teacher for a second year in a row. What a privilege! Thank you!

As a teacher, I had to move classrooms which was not my intention, but I had to follow instructions, so I am in a "normal" size classroom but I am definitely "packed".  Which brought me to the decision to create an online Art Gallery since we do fit everyone in the one bulletin board in our classroom. I use Artsonia.com : Strobridge School 
I invite you to visit us there!

Technology Choices

Have you wonder what platform to use about technology? Google? Microsoft? Apple? Linux?

My district has chosen Goggle, however they have provided us with Lenovos that have Microsoft Office 365 as well. They have allowed us to get some training. Before, some teachers on special assignments were allow to use Apple laptops. 

As a teacher in the classroom learning to apply and integrate technology within my lessons, I will use whatever I can get access. So when the Internet is down, we can not use Goggle documents or presentations, so I have to use Microsoft PowerPoint, when my Pc is out of battery, I can use the Apple laptop.

I do have to say that Apples hardly break down. They are truly work horses! There is what you are paying for in an Apple.

As educators, we need to transcend the molds of a platform and move into teaching the students concepts and skills that can be apply in real life.

I have been teaching for a good chunk of time, and we need to connect to the real problems we are facing when educating our future students.

I believe that teaching students keyboarding skills, how to write a document in a word processor, how to create a graph, how to put a presentation together from the photos and video you took, the list goes on and on.

Does it really matter if you are doing these projects on a Apple, Microsoft, or Google? NO! It does not matter, there are just some adjustment in what the programs you are using, just like changing shoes? Right? Wearing boots has a different feeling than wearing your clogs, or tennis shoes.

Life is about concepts and skills you can live on, work on, dream on, struggle that makes life interesting!

So take that technology class your school district offers for free, and join in a education movement!

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a magical, healthy, and educational New Year!

May all your wishes come true, and you are able to reach all of your goals this year!

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Les deseo un año lleno de salud, magia, y educación!

Que todos sus deseos se conviertan en realidad y obtengan todas sus metas este año nuevo!