I Just Feel Like Praising God

There's a new song my choir at Socastee Baptist Church is learning Called "Tell Somebody!" It says we must tell others of the good things God has done for us. I have just returned from a 2 hour wonderful experience of reading at Barnes and Nobles right outside the Cafe where you can hear the cappicino machine and smell the coffee and brownies. It was so cold outside, and every once in a while I would look up from my novel to see Sunday afternoon shoppers walking outside bundled up in hats and scarves rushing to their car with purchases in tow. I just feel so fortunate to live in a place where I am free to go to a book store and read or do whatever I want without fear. God has let me raise three wonderful girls to adulthood so I have the freedom to go somewhere and read and not worry about them. Last night I ate dinner at our local Cracker Barrel in front of a roaring fire. When I finished my meal, I sat there for over an hour and read. Once again, it is with God's grace that I can go relax in front of a fire and enjoy a good book without fear. I will share with my students this week about my delightful reading times this weekend, hoping to inspire a love of reading in them. At the 6th grade level, they try to imitate you sometimes. I want to thank God for all my students who I can encourage to be avid readers.

I have been out of the loop for a week or more now. All kinds of things have been going on at my house and to my body. To say I had an intestinal virus this past week would be putting it mildly. As I was slowily recovering here at home, I would think of ideas to bring some of the things I am reading about in Kajder's books into my classroom of 6th graders. Here I am trying to get them to correctly write a 5 paragraph composition to get ready for their PASS writing test in March, and I am reading that there are many wonderful ways to get students to express their ideas by different visual presentations where sometimes a paragraph is not found. What a world we live in! I loved someone's blog I have been following that told about how she taught a particular student to always be prepared because technology not work or it may mess up on the day you are presenting your project. She actually wrote in cursive on her board instead of using the Smart Board for a lesson because the technology was not working. Her point was to the student to always be prepared with a backup in case things don't work, and you have to know the basics-not just the fancy ways to present information. So my students are going to learn the old-timey way as well as some new fangled ways to present information.

All About Me

I am a sixth grade language arts teacher at Ocean Bay Middle School. I am a grandmother of 5 beautiful children ages 4to 10. I am looking forward to learning lots of good things in this class to use in my classroom.