Life of the Party

      I'm so thrilled that there is finally a set of books that I can read with my classes. This book was especially great due to the up coming movie. As a class we read DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth and they were so into it. As long as they are willing to read, I will go to any extent to get the books. I ended saving money from each check to purchase enough copies for my entire class. Our youth today needs to have literature they can associate themselves with. Literature circles is what makes my classes thrive. This is a grade appropriate book that allows my students to do a full character analysis and they have also completed the author's notes that came along with my Ebook that is one my phone.        I have spent my evenings reading ahead of my students and preparing discussion questions. I'm thankful for our snow days, so I had time to fully finish the book. As a reward for reading the book I will be taking my classes out to w...

      Fitting in wasn't always easy growing up and now that I'm teaching in a neighboring community I find that I'm truly a stranger. Wow, to be young and not know anyone. I can see that within my own community many "outsiders" always remain so due to the fact that they are different. I feel as if you have to grow up here to fit in. I wonder if I rejected peers because they weren't from here? I would like to think the best, but I doubt I was friendly.       After much complication, I discovered that I'll just have to try harder and make the extra effort to be at all sporting events. This will be my plan for the next few months. I'll keep you posted on the progress.  I want to teach in the community, so I'll try my best!

   I have spent the last two week cooped up in my home. Small towns are boring anyway, but to be trapped for days with the same three people is really tiring and not to mention debilitating. Luckily I did have the opportunity to have school on Monday. I really miss my students and having that time taken away will really hurt my curriculum guide.     I did find things to occupy my laziness.       The long days trapped inside my home resulted in cold freezing walks to the mail box. There is nothing as beautiful as a freshly fallen snow. I just love the way it attaches itself to the trees. As you can see it took several days before we attempted to drive the car down the driveway.        It seems as if I wasn't the only one who needed out to the house. Dad finally gave in and invited me to ride out to Rainbow Falls. The ice is now completely in the road and will soon be impassible. These pictures were t...

Thoughts… I think sometimes we lose ourselves in the “what ifs.” What if all you did in life was wonder what you did wrong?     Thoughts of you are weary, And they always seem dreary. Friendship was never bound, But you left without a sound. I worshiped every thought you had, And smiled at all your bad. Thoughts are always with me. Our friendship was a rocky sea. You left this world too soon, My world was popped like a balloon. I stand beside your grave Trying my best to be brave.

LIFE IS... Life is hard, rough, and mean. Life can be what we want it to be. Life can break us down and leave us withering in the sun. Life and choke us out and leave behind all the fun. Life is about living it up and being done. We can embrace what life has given us, Or we can all take that ride on the short bus. We can sell live and let it pass us by, or be small child who forgot how to tie. Life is surreal and engulfs us in our entirety until everyone is mellow and there is no variety.  We can run from our nightmares, but not our lives. We can take the ladder and not do the dives. Play it safe and let live lead you, or take the reins and ride into the blue.

      Planning and creative thinking are always a bad combination, especially when I'm involved. My lessons seem okay, but when I go to pick up materials...       With my new classes I think we will learn to define ourselves as writers first and then tackle the grammar. Writing isn't always the most exciting pare of my daily routine, but editing and seeing all the mistakes. Everything we write can only improve when we take a second glance. Starting small will be very hard for my rather large class. They have so many ideas and we have little time to accomplish what we need.                  Class time is always a delicate wire that could possible be cut by invisible scissors. I think our first project will be comparing life to a highway or map. I haven't really decided how they are going to present the information, but hopefully between now and Monday the thought will cross my mi...

       One of my students today brought up an interesting idea. He believes that one's life can be summed up in your plethora of shoes. Looking back into this topic I think that this does hold some weight in today's society.         I came home and dug out my shoes. If I'm defined by my ownership of shoes, then I'm in some serious trouble. The older I get the more my shoe choice has changed. I had everything from tennis shoes to simple black flats. Ah, yes and most are bought for comfort not style. Its funny to examine myself via shoes. I have grown to see myself as a necessity individual and not a fashion person who buys on a whelm. Day TWO       I looked around at what my peers were choosing to wear. HUMMMMMM......       The more I took notice of shoes choice the more I came aware of age. We seem to be tied to our every growing age, and our clothing and shoes styles change as we age. The point of being an ...

Hope             Hope is the overwhelming feeling of accomplishment when there is a futile chance of winning a battle. The underdog is most often the uneducated participant that is left behind in the dust, who no one thinks will succeed.             Hope is the little girl who dreams of singing at recitals that might not happen. She doesn’t concede to the fears, but she does keep this in mind. She gets up on a daily basis to practice until she is out of breath. She has this "hope" that one day all her effort will pay off, and who is to say she is wrong?             To be such a small word it can have a huge impact on who we are as a people. Our past incidents can only be fixed when we know what our future holds. After knowing this, one must also think about the fact that our future is like shifting sand. We never...

     A year can come and go,      But our feelings will always show      That you were more than just a name      More than a part of this game       Fishing tales and tying hooks       You never had to open a book        To teach me what was important in life       How to live and be a good wife      Every October will be hard      In the woods alone I will be on guard      I will use the lessons you taught      Because you always thought       The best of me was real      And I just never figured out that deal      Thank you for always being the grandparent      Who never knew you were really a second parent.      Who helped raise a crazy child       While she wanted to run free and wild ...

      I'm so thankful for all our service men and women. They should be treated better, paid top salary, and have all accommodations afforded to them. They sacrifice their prime years for us and they deserve the best. Hopefully one day everyone will see that!