Hannah+Challenger



Hi!! My name is Hannah Challenger and I am a senior Early Childhood Education major at Clemson University. I am from Gastonia, North Carolina but have always wanted to go to school here at Clemson! I enjoy being an active member of my sorority and participating in various activities across Clemson's campus. I also enjoy going to Clemson football games and cheering on the tigers! On Mondays and Wednesdays, I attend Hollis Academy in Greenville, SC for my practicum. I am in Ms. Bartlett's, single gender boy, kindergarten class and enjoy learning from my experience in this classroom. My family and friends are very important to me and I love the holiday season! I cannot wait to become a teacher and be able to see children grow and explore the world around them!

=Hannah Challenger's PLN =

The first site that I found to add to my PLN is a blog titled **“A Fly on the Classroom Wall.”** This site is a blog, written by a teacher who has been teaching for 18 years, who presents different strategies, suggestions, and lessons for elementary grade teachers. She writes about personal experiences and on all sorts of topics that can benefit teachers and students. The next site that I chose was **Pinterest**. Pinterest is a social website that allows people to ‘pin’ topics of interest. It can be very beneficial to teachers because it has lots of suggestions for lesson plans and activities. The third site that I chose is called “**Cool Cat Teacher Blog**.” This is written by a full time teacher and has received numerous awards for her blog. In her blog, she writes about various topics and also provides ideas for teachers. This blog also presents personal topics that teachers may struggle with during their career.  As I was learning about my PLN’s I found an abundant of helpful ideas, activities, and resources that will benefit me when I become a teacher. One of resources that I found very helpful was on the blog “A Fly on the Classroom Wall.” It was a list of 25 suggestions of different ways teachers could communicate with parents. As a new teacher, it will be important that I make communication with parents a top priority. These suggestions gave me ideas that I will definitely use in my classroom when I become a teacher.

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http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems7.html (Poem- The Snowman)

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 * This activity would correlate to the ELA standards and the guiding principles for many reasons. The activity promotes oral language for children and it also provides strategic instruction in reading and writing. Children must be able to read the poem/what they wrote in order to make the blabber. It also correlates with guiding principle number nine because it gets children involved in technology. It also includes ELA standards by reading poetry, figurative language and drama. This widget is a great tool to use in the classroom in order to keep students attention and have them active inside the classroom. **