Amanda+A.+Nelson

Hello, my name is Amanda A. Nelson. I am a senior from Anderson, SC studying Early Childhood Education, at Clemson University. I enjoy spending time with my family, going to church, and participating and watching sports. After graduation I plan to go straight into the work force. A dream of mine is to work at a church based school. I want to teach kindergarten and I am excited to have some experience in a kindergarten classroom during student teaching next semester. = =

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=The sources I included on my PLN are A Kid's Heart, Education World, and a blog from Kindergarten 3 R's.= ===__A Kid's Heart__ is a site that has games, coloring pages, and lessons. It is filled with great resources to be provided in the classroom or at home for parents to do with children. __Education World__ has news about education. It contains lesson plans, and some professional development ideas. I found information on technology and tips for teachers on various subjects. __The Kindergarten blogspot__ is a great blog to go get resources there are links to multiple sites. Here I can read about current activities, music, and story time in the classroom. There is a section on arts and crafts and a lot of information concerning early childhood even two and three year olds! These websites will be valuable for any classroom teacher. ===

=== As a result of the project on PLN's I have learned that you can help any of the social networks your involved in to become more educational. I have enjoyed searching for resources to complete my PLN it let me know what sites are out there and to set a criteria for when I am looking for information to share with students. I feel that many teachers' can benefit from having a bank of resources in an organized way. ===

=__Blabberize__= =This is a poem titled //Bath// I found this poem on [|RicharadMacwilliam.com.] I retrieved this image from an image seach on google at this address []. This little boy was modeling sticky appliques that stick to the bathtub walls to make bathtime fun.=

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=__Poem__=

//BATH//, When I’m in the bath, I like to play for hours - Splashing water on the floor, Building big foam towers by Richard Macwilliam.
==Blabberize is a fun tool once you figure out how to get the mouth in a correct looking position. I believe children will enjoy this, I like how it is simple and quick to do.Since even kindergarteners are now going to computer lab they would probably be capable of learning he steps to take for this activity. This activity would correlate to the ELA standards and Guiding Principles because not only are you using technology but the students are required to search for an image and poem, and to take the poem and read it aloud to record their voice. Here you are working on oral communication as well as poetry reading. Guiding Principal five and eight sums up how this would be tied in. Five states Oral language and expression is foundational to literacy learning and development. Since a poem had to be read they will increase their vocabulary and be exposed to different types of meaningful contexts. Eight states an effective English language arts curriculum utilizes all forms of media to prepare students to live in an information-rich society. There are many types of emerging technologies for students to learn to work with. The skills needed to complete this project can be transferred over to many other forms of technology as well. The second grade standard 2.6 the student will access and use information from a variety of sources also represents this activity. The students were required to use the internet and they have a variety of print sources involved here as well.==