So it's been just over a month diving head first into the teacherspayteachers.com world, and I'm enjoying the response. I'm really impressed with the site and how it works as it is truly a tool to enhance education as well offer teachers (and home school teachers alike) an opportunity to supplement their salary. Teaching is by far one of the most demanding jobs there are, and it goes way beyond the classroom. Like parenthood, teaching is a way of life - something that is integral to your identity (at least I feel that way lol). It's a job where you give, give and give, and the only real return is seeing your child over come challenges and succeed. I know the site itself has its critics, as pretty much anything in today's society does. But that doesn't mean it's not beneficial to both student and teachers, and in all honesty, any win/win situation is a good thing.
When I started the home schooling era of my life this past September, I promised myself that I wouldn't do anything "too childish" in terms of babying my grade 4. But I've learned that when kids can related to "kiddie" things, they are so much more open to learning. I FINALLY decided to use comic sans for an assignment a few weeks back, and the first comment out of K's mouth was "cool font!" and he dove right into completing the work! What? You mean to tell me that you don't care for Times New Roman, or Ariel black? Those are classics!! What I fail to realize though, is that grade 4 students are not used to writing pages upon pages of papers, so Times New Roman is not nostalgic for them yet. Messy writing, misspelled words are their comforts.
I guess this is a learning process for everyone! Luckily teacherspayteachers.com offers numerous freebies for parents such as myself to download in order to make homework assignments and activities much more inviting to young and creative minds.
Do I still think comic sans is a childish font? Absolutely! Does that mean I will never use it? Of course not!!
Weeks until summer: 8!
Check out my stuff on teacherspayteachers! Like I said, it's only been a month...
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Home-Schooling-Via-Min-Of-Education
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Thursday, 1 May 2014
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Spring has sprung!
It seems as though that spring has finally sprung in the GTA! It definitely couldn't have come any sooner! The hockey season is winding down, and the kids are longing for those dog days of summer. To be honest, I'm dreaming of them too - life always seems easier when the sun is out, accompanied by a cool breeze - and of course, a glass of wine, or two, or three (depending on the week LOL)
But I digress.
Not only are we winding down the school year, this is also the time to start planing for September! So, I've officially started to upload my lesson plans and worksheets for Grade 4 onto teacherspayteachers.com; a useful website where teachers are able to upload their own worksheets and lesson plans for purchase. The link to my store is here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Home-Schooling-Via-Min-Of-Education
I am sill in the process of uploading all my lesson plans, but it's a process, so please, bear with me :-) Also, everything uploaded is what I've done with my son, so they were successfully used in a learning environment. All of the content is based on the requirements and expectations of the ministry of education for the province.
Please note that I can do any other lesson plan for all elementary subjects (as well as history and English high school courses) from any other province, whether it's an entire unit, or a specific chapter. I do all my own research, and can completely customize it to fit your child's interest. My son absolutely loves Minecraft and hockey, so I incorporate those into every lesson for him. When you get kids to relate, you get them to learn.
I know I'm pitching myself here, but hey, the internet is all about shameless self-advertisement! lol
If you would like a sample of my writing, lesson plans, worksheets - anything - I can totally offer that to you! All my work is based on my own research (of course from credible sources; learned a LONG time ago that wikepedia is NOT meant to be the basis of ones research lol).
I'm available via email if you have any questions, or just need someone to vent to. Raising children is tough, being a mother/ father AND a teacher is even harder. But we're all focused on the end result: raising the best kids we can :-)
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
Cheers!!
Ms. Fusion
ascarter921@gmail.com
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