Hello, I'm Megan Nicks. I am an English, Language Arts major for elementary education. I love kids which helped me make the decision for elementary age. I love to read, I am currently working on some classics (The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). I have a seven week old niece, I try to spend as much time with her as I can, when I am not working. I am a waitress for a restaurant in South Haven. Living very close to South Haven, I love to spend days on the beach and watch the sunsets. I have started to get into gardening and have started a flower garden and hope to grow vegetables in the near future.
Technology has mostly been used as a practice tool in the classrooms I have been in. My teaching assisting classroom had seven iPads and they would be used for math and reading practice during daily three and five. There was a doc camera and that was used for showing the students new activities, as well as, show books that were read to them either in person or from YouTube. I have used a day planning template that my teachers had already been using and they just added me into the document.
I really enjoy doing word searches. I don't do them as much as I used to, but I used to be able to do them in less than 10 minutes!
Megan, glad we are having another class together as well! It sounds like your passion for reading and experience with different genres of literature will only benefit your students! I like the video you posted, those were always fun to do in the classroom growing up and I'm sure your students will enjoy doing them with or against you for a prize- or fun!!
ReplyDeleteGood to see someone who's into gardening. It's definitely a lost skill, and it's just darn cool to grow your own food (and perhaps integrate cross-disciplinary lessons between science and ELA).
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