Ready, Set, Grob!

    This is an autobiography for a teaching methods science class that I am taking for my elementary certification. The point of this autobiography, despite how long or short it is, is to investigate my personal feelings on how I feel about science, how to grow in having a more positive attitude towards science, and how to help students learn science and have better attitudes towards science and most importantly, to show students how scientist are people that look like them, no matter race, gender, or background.     Looking back on my experience with science, I can say that my feeling have been in the so so mind set about science, it's neither here or there. I've always cared about littering, keeping plant and food gardens (I've tried with both and failed. The most I could do was nurse an aloe vera plant for a year and a half and raise and harvest three strawberries). I've cared about testing things on animals, I've always thought that it was wrong but never knew h...

    Every person in the world has experienced death, right? Even babies, they just don't remember them. They don't remember loosing someone until maybe preschool age, but the feelings, the hurt and confusion, they don't remember until they are a little older and can truly put into perspective what is happening, that they won't see that friend or family member, or family pet again depending if they are raised with religious beliefs or not and believe in the afterlife or the eternal life.  I believe in the eternal life with Jesus after this life. I believe that I will see those that I love that have gone before me, there when I get there, at least I pray and hope that I get there by living as Jesus commands me to through his word.     I say all of that to say this: death sucks. I have now been in education, starting off as a part time building aid to now, being an ISS / STAAR room Supervisor. Can't say teacher because I'm not certified yet, but I believe all peopl...

Yesterday was the last day of Teaching Language Arts class as stated in the title of this blog. This class has been an emotional roller coaster. With the Pandemic happening and the death of George Floyd and all that happened and is continuing to happen in the wake of his death, the class itself because of the books that we talk about and how we go about teaching our present and future students, that in itself was emotional. Everything then put together as one, made it that much more emotional. There's so much going on in the world and it all is incorporated into education whether some want it to be or not. I appreciated that we talked about these things in class a couple times and it wasn't a negative experience. It was awesome to be in a class of wonderful people who were so opened minded to hear and learn more. I pray that they continue to be open and learn more in the future to be a better educator to their students and a better over all person for themselves and their loved...

    In class tonight, the class discussed in some length, literature circles and scope and sequence. So far, I absolutely love writing lesson plans and having all these ideas in my mind about how I want the lessons to go, what materials will be used, and what I would like the projects, topics, and books will be that go with each unit. Surprisingly, I'm loving planning out History and ELA together. In discussing the literature circles, I was actually thinking about adding to my current ELA unit, podcasts as part of the projects that would be due at the end of the day, using it as a closure. The only problem I would run into is space, how would I let my students go about finding a space to record away from other students. I would definitely pick groups and have students record together and record as if it was a radio talk show. I think this would be very creative for the students and keeping them engaged in the unit.   P.S. I thought that I posted this blog the night o...

I wanted to share this very good advice that an educator shared with myself and other members of an educator group that I am apart of on fb. She also put a link in her post. Please click on it and go to because it's a great resource. Again, this isn't my lost but someone else's post that I am sharing. In case the link doesn't work, here it is but I think it will still be very good to read her post as a great resource as well because before she gave the link she gave greay advice on how to make this a year round learning experience instead of just a black history reading month.  https://m.facebook.com/groups/217234082248349?view=permalink&id=544191276219293

              Today I had the privilege of talking with my classmates and my instructor on my last blog post of what's going on the world today. It's heartbreaking really. What's the biggest heartbreak of it all is being fearful for our children, whether those babies are yours by blood or yours as a student, niece, or nephew, or a child that goes to the same church as you. Those babies look up to you and they want to have conversations. Conversations are hard but they need to happen. The books I am going to recommend are ones that I have read that have help me have discussions with my children, other children who want to be friends with my children, and books that I have read to my children in the classrooms that I go into or pull from. These babies have voices and feelings and they need to be able to voice their feelings and opinions in a manner that can truly heard and not overshadowed by an action that comes out of anger like hitting or throwin...

This isn't pertaining to my class specifically but it does at the same time because as educator and future educators we need to all be aware of what's going on in the world and how to properly educate our students, especially our students of color when it's time to teach them about our country in history class. Anyway, I just want to share my thoughts of what's going on in America today as a black mother of 3 biracial sons, a black wife to my white husband, a black friend to my friends of different races, and a black sister and daughter to my mothers and siblings and my mother in law. This is how I feel. This is my post from Facebook: I have began to write but then erased things so many times and I still don't know what to say but I want to try to say something before I go to sleep. There's no order to this because my thoughts are all over the ace but here it goes... I'm not ok. I'm tired. I'm frustrated. I'm scared. I'm angry. I'm upset....