World Teachers’ Day with Grammarly
The most important person in a child’s life besides a parent/grandparent/guardian is a teacher. Teachers spend the majority of the day with your child. Teachers are introducing concepts to your child beyond reading and math, like social skills, time management, and hard work. Those skills are just as important as anything they will learn in…
Read More Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. As a subsitiute teacher, I know how hard teachers work and how they can feel unappreciated at times. We have just a few weeks of school left in our district and it can be a really stressful time for teachers. Students have begun to “zone out” because it…
Read More Book Review: Crazy is Normal By Lloyd Lofthouse
CRAZY IS NORMAL By: Lloyd Lofthouse Published: June 14, 2014 Publisher: Three Clover Press Non-Fiction/Memoir I’m participating in the book tour for CRAZY IS NORMAL with Virtual Author Book Tours. After teaching for twenty years, Lofthouse decided to keep a journal sharing the ups and downs of teaching freshman English and journalism. He kept this…
Read More An Overwhelming Yet Rewarding Week
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have begun substitute teaching. Since February, I have been subbing at least once or twice a week at our Middle School/High School. Each day seemed to bring new challenges. Somedays I was expected to teach topics I wasn’t too familiar with (Alegbra) and others I had to learn…
Read More A New Adventure
I have embarked on a new adventure the last couple weeks…..Substitute Teaching. Back in November I took a class to get a Substitute License. In Iowa, if you have a Bachelor’s Degree, you are allowed to Substitute Teach at the Middle School/High School level after taking this required course and completing a few other steps…
Read More 
}
.gr_custom_header_1691511406 {
/* customize your Goodreads header here*/
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 5px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 80%
}
.gr_custom_each_container_1691511406 {
/* customize each individual book container here */
width: 100%;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 10px;
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 4px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
}
.gr_custom_book_container_1691511406 {
/* customize your book covers here */
overflow: hidden;
height: 60px;
float: left;
margin-right: 4px;
width: 39px;
}
.gr_custom_author_1691511406 {
/* customize your author names here */
font-size: 10px;
}
.gr_custom_tags_1691511406 {
/* customize your tags here */
font-size: 10px;
color: gray;
}
.gr_custom_rating_1691511406 {
/* customize your rating stars here */
float: right;
}
