PledgeCents Classroom Cause

Hey, everyone!

I hope that you are doing well.  I wanted to give you a chance to act on a wonderful opportunity for you to support my students.  I am working on raising $355 over the next 20 days in order to provide students with the best education possible.  This campaign is going to be geared towards restocking the supplies.  My students are at a Title I school which means we service low-income families.  You can read all about the need, students, and school at the cause website (click invest in the box to the right).

I would ask that you contribute if possible by donating and/or spreading the word to anyone you know who might be interested in supporting this classroom.  It would really help if you could share the cause via your Facebook, Twitter, blog, or email to your friends, family, and co-workers.

Please note that if I do not make the goal that we will purchase as many supplies as we can with what we receive.

Thank you in advance for your support!

You Would Not Believe My Day

Today has been a day.  As a teacher, today was my first day back to work after being home for Winter Break.  It was quick but relaxing at the same time.  Last night, I stayed up late working on lesson plans I have completed plans for January 3rd until January 17th.  If I get inspired today, I will also have plans for at least until the 24th and if I'm really ambitious through the 31st.

I digress...

This morning I wake up, I'm trying to get myself in a positive mindset.  Overall it's working.  I get to work at 6:40, walk into my room and I see my furniture out of place.  I'm like okay that's fine they did some cleaning over the break, it's cool, I'm early.  I'll put my lunch away, print my lesson plans, and then I'll fix the furniture before the children get in.  Before I leave I notice my blinds, that are in the area where my furniture was moved, are not the way I left them before the break.  I pull up my blinds and find.

I leave out to go find someone to talk to but the Principal isn't there yet.  I go back inside to find.

I was so shocked but I didn't let it get the best of me instead I just told myself just go on ahead and copy your lesson plans.  So I go to the copier and the red light is on and the message for service is on.  Okay, fine, I'll just go to the teacher next door and print to her classroom, that shouldn't be a problem.  It wasn't.

I go back to my classroom and the principal is inside surveying the damage.  She tells me to keep the children away from the carpet, use the tables fine.  So I'm looking over the plans and trying to find out what I am going to do.  She comes back and says okay you need to combine with the other prekindergarten teacher.  So I sit there and I try to figure out what I needed to be ready to take my students into the classroom next door.  I can't figure anything out so I just go next door and try to settle in.

The other teachers in that room are asking me how we were going to do it.  I was just like we're going to wing it because our classrooms have not been set up for 22 students, even though technically that makes one full class.

All in all, I'm still feeling happy, hopeful, a little shocked but mostly I'm concerned for the people  children who did this.  One thing I will say is that they have a good arm, they should look into baseball because they have to be throwing fastballs or curveballs.  But if they find the children, what will the outcome be?  Will they be suspended? expelled?  For me, it's a double-edged sword.  These children clearly need some attention, help, and support.  Schools should be a pillar of the community, a place to cherish and value but instead, it was vandalized.  Even when things happen that shouldn't we should be able to provide some sort of support to these students.

Mirrors & Windows Introduction

In a post I made, last January in my blog Talks with Tots, I wrote about my thoughts on the comments that Stacey Dash made (see the link below for details).  Now, I am going to from time to time reflect on my mirrors and windows to help me and you to understand how our experiences shape who we are.  I want to create a dialogue where we can feel comfortable expressing who we are based on the images that are made in our likeness and the images and the images that are different.

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Happy New Year & First Steps

This year I plan on using my creativity to help push myself out of my comfort zone.  Today, January 1, 2017, I decided to just go to teespring.com and see where it takes me.  I ended up creating a t-shirt.  I'm kind of excited and inspired and now I want to really explore my creativeness.

Since today is January 1st, I wanted to be deliberate and intentional and make sure that I did something for me.  Last year was a bit of a struggle and so I lost sight of the things that I am good at.  Now this shirt is not something that I am boasting about but it is a step in the right direction.

Here's the front preview of my shirt.  Visit teespring.com/teacher-s-w-a-g

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