Serena+Boykin

**My name is Serena Boykin. I am from Georgetown, South Carolina. I went to Georgetown High School, and graduated in May 2007. From August 2007 to May 2009, I attended Spartanburg Methodist College, and graduated with an Associate of Arts Degree. In August 2009, I transferred to Clemson University, and I am currently enrolled as an Early Childhood Education major. This Fall 2011, I am attending a practicum experience twice a week in Mrs. Anne Frichtl's first grade classroom at Hollis Academy in Greenville, South Carolina. This experience has already been a wonderful experience! In the future, I am planning to search for many teaching jobs in both South Carolina and Georgia. I am open to any job opening in either an Early Childhood Headstart program or an elementary school, but I am looking more at 4 year old Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and First grade. **

**My PLN** **Little Literacy Learners: **a blog that a reading teacher created to share many different literacy activities for young children. She works with students in grades Kindergarten through fourth grade. An example of an activity on her blog is called short books. They are little books that contain high frequency words. **The First Grade Parade: **a blog that a first grade teacher created to share many different and creative first grade learning activities. She displays her lessons along with pictures for readers to visually see her lesson activities. **What the Teacher Wants: ** a blog that two teachers, Rachelle and Natalie, created to upload many different learning activities for other teachers. This blog will give teachers many different ideas about lesson activities from grades 4K to third grade.

A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a creative and visual way to display many different educational sites that I can refer to find a website that will give me ideas about lessons. Instead of searching around on Google to find educational sites, I can refer to my PLN and explore these educational sites. These sites also have related sites that I can explore to gain more ideas for creative lessons.

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The Blabberize activity connects with English Language Arts standards and ELA Guiding Principles. It connects with English Language Arts standards because children are able to improve their reading skills, oral language skills, comprehension skills. This activity gives children an opportunity to record themselves reading different texts in a fun way. After listening to themselves reading, they are able to recognize their mistakes and learn how they are able to improve their reading skills. While children are reading texts out loud, they can improve their oral language skills as well as their comprehension skills. Most children can comprehend the text after reading it out loud to themselves. The Blabberize activity connects to ELA Guiding Principles because children are able to write or research many stories or poems to record their reading and communication. Children are able to use different types of technology to encourage their learning skills in language arts. Blabberize can improve every child's ability to read and orally communicate effectively.