Teachers should check these out

1. ISTE Website
2. Teachers blogs that can assist with making your own professional development during summer time
3. Free videos for professional development 
4. Some healthy tips on living

Enjoy!

Tinkering with PhotoFunia program

Summer

Everybody looks forward to summer... Summer arrives... What to do? So much time and not enough to do!

• I will be trying the 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in 60 Days.

I hope it helps me keep healthy and out of financial troubles. Clearing the clutter of my home should keep me busy enough that I will not spend what I don't have in a classroom that I don't have anymore.

• Still looking for a job...

• Now reading:

1. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

2. Bone Rattler by Eliot Pattison

3. Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb (audiobook)

• Insightful web site: California Kindergarten Association, they have a page that assists teachers conduct research!

• I am in love with Edutopia.org! They have a page for everything related to education. I am working on Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning.

Busy weekend

I have so many things to do this weekend that I have a hard time concentrating enough to start any of them. Putting together a portfolio, patching a Power Point Presentation for my TEAMS fellows, spending time with my husband, not counting Mother's Day events - it is packed with things that need to be done, and cannot be postponed.

I will see how it goes.

Triceratops may not have ever existed...

Check this link for fun fact about triceratops. If you are a science buff, I am sure you will find this intriguing:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AdFoK6/www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/triceratops-might-be-a-mythical-beast 


Being an elementary teacher, I have to say that my students have passed their dinosaur fever to me. I love everything about them!

Great resource for teachers

If you think that classroom management is about keeping the students quiet, you are so wrong! Check http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2011/04/30/how-a-party-can-improve-classroom-management/ Smart Classroom Management to see how you can take control of your classroom and succeed at being a good teacher.

Wake up call for America - Teachers need second jobs also!

Being a teacher, I have to agree. When I was a waitress, I earned a lot more than now, and still I continue to strive to be a great teacher and to touch as many lives I can with a little bit of knowledge, or at least, with a little bit of incentive to make that child leap higher and pursue her dreams as a student. I want my students to succeed and love school and knowledge so they make the future a better place for all.

Check this blog: http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/05/62-percent-of-american-teachers-work.html