Katie+Wilson

Hi! My name is Katie Wilson and I am an early childhood major at Clemson University. I am currently doing my practicum in Greenville County in a Kindergarten classroom. I am really enjoying my time with them and it has encouraged me even more to persuit my dreams of being a teacher. I love spending time with children and watching them grow and learn. I cannot wait until I have my own classroom. I have so many ideas and strategies that I am excited about. My goal as a teacher is to reach every student and help them mature cognitively, physically, and emotionally. I think that no student should be overlooked and that each of them deserves to be treated with care and love. I also believe that having appropriate high expectations for each student is important. Each child is capable of learning and it is the teachers job to find out how to best reach each child.

=Katie Wilson's PLN=



Serenade to Second Grade is a blog written by a second grade teacher, Mrs. Calpp. I chose to put this website on my PLN because it has a lot of great ideas for lessons, and classroom management techniques. This week her blog featured her idea of welcome bags when her students first come to her classroom, and journals for each month.
 * Serenade to Second Grade:**

Sklobal is an awesome website for educators to collaborate ideas. Many educators around the world take part in Sklobal and I think this is the best place to find out what other schools are doing. By collaborating and sharing great ideas teachers are better equipped to be the best they can be and refine their lessons to be the most effective. This is giving education a global connection.
 * Sklobal:**

Lastly The Inspired Apple is a website written by a first grade teacher, Babbling Abbie. She uploads great ideas that she uses in her classroom and even sells some of her units that she has created. She also has free downloads for some of her management techniques and other ideas that she uses in her classroom. This is great because she tells you what she does with her lessons and how they worked.
 * The Inspired Apple:**

From using a PLN I discovered how easy it is to keep track of resources. I have found these great new websites and blogs that will be very useful when I am planning lessons or how to manage my classroom. I have also found great ways to communicate with other educators about what they are doing and can work with them and bounce ideas off of each other.

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I really enjoyed this activity and I think that the children would as well. It promotes oral langauge development and meets the requirements for many language arts standards. The children can recite poems like seen here, or they could summarize what they learned about a certain historical figure. That way it would cover social studies standards, such as K-3.3 Identify the reasons for celebrating the national holidays, including Independence Day, Thanksgiving, President’s Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (H, P). Students could chose a representative for a certain holiday and then record their voice saying what they learned about that holiday. This could be indicidual projects or group projects. I think this is a great way for students to learn how to research to find images, and information about what they would be doing their Blabberize on. It is also a great form of assessment. The teacher can hear and see what the student has learned about thier topic. Also I think it would be great for students to share on the interactive whiteboard. This will promote public speaking and oral language. Plus I think that the students would be very excited to share what they have done.