My favorite teacher

Tonight I had grad class and I got to visit with my professor on our way out and I don't often use the word blessed but I do feel blessed to know her!  She is well spoken and a role model!

AR goals and crazy hair day

Today we had crazy hair day!  I don't know if you are familiar with Accelerated Reader but when we reach a new goal we get to celebrate success with a goal!!  I wore an electic blue curly wig and it was super special for my first grade students!! 

 

I can't wait for my grad classes to finish because I am frazzled and not excited about them!!  I am however excited about joining some of my family members overseas with the ISS program!  If any of you would like to travel I would recomend the non profit organization because the schools are privately funded by dignitaries and International businessmen's children!  The college graduation rate is 98%!

Inspiration

Today has been a very long day.  I had my favorite part of the day at the very end.  I have an inspiring person in my life and she is my professor.  She is blonde and tiny and very smart.  She is my inspiration.  She can reflect on what has happened since 2004-2005 and put everything in perspective for me.  She is well spoken and nice.  I am really grateful she is my professor again this semester.  Her name is Mary Pat.  She is the best.  My finance class is easy..nothing like business finance.  So today I am grateful for Mary Pat!!!

I am a teacher because...

I am thirty and finally reday to work!!!  I must admit I have always wanted to be a teacher!!  As a little girl I played teacher a lot in Barrow, AK!!  We moved to FL when I was seven after my dad retired from the North Slope (he was a Principal and my mother was a Vice Principal).  My family is full of Educators so you can imagine what it's like to be around us!

 

I graduated from FSU with a degree in Risk Management.  If you ask me anything that has to do with Financial Planning or the benefits of investing in Insurance I can tell you exactly what to do!  I took my first grown up job in Jacksonville, FL and did not  like it!  So I decided to go to a college after work in downtown Jacksonville to an EPI program.  I moved back to Central Florida where my mother is still a Principal and am teaching first grade!!  Writing my story this way is really boring but full of facts. 

door ideas

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Sandy Hook

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