Week 5!! Woohoo!!
Quick little shoutout to my dad on this Father's Day weekend!! Also, Happy Father's Day to all your dads! Or moms if they had to play both roles!!!

Let's hop right on in! As always, grab your coffee- still haven't had mine today so this is perfect timing- and let's start talking about education!

ELA standards are something that is not totally foreign to me as English has always been my favorite subject in school and as I am studying to become a teacher myself. I believe I would feel most comfortable at this present moment with the standard for First Graders that specifies oral communication and learning. This summer I am actually working as a preschool teacher and my favorite thing has been to stretch my kid's language by asking them questions, making them explain things to me, or making them use their "big girl or boy" words. Oral tests have always been a good learning method for me and I think other kids benefit from it as well, so it is something I would feel confident in at the present moment.

Now onto the CPALMS toolkit! I found this whole website super cool and beneficial! Definitely something I want to continue to go back to as I get deeper into my own teaching career. Specifically, I enjoyed the Health Education section that was available. It actually gives an activity to teach the students about health in a way that they would enjoy. The activity for First Grade was ranking school lunches and I think a lot of students would love to do that. Eduction goes beyond math, science, and English; you have to teach life skills and knowledge and health would be at the top for me so I found this tool super insightful and helpful.

Working on the newsletter was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. I really enjoyed utilizing the column tool as I have written a lot of papers in my school years and those never include columns. Being able to use this feature was super neat and simple but gave a touch to the newsletter and allowed me to include more information that didn't look like one giant piece of paper with words on it. It spread things out and helped with the entire flow. Next time I think I think my newsletter as a whole could be a little more eye catching. Using the column tool along with clipart makes a parent actually want to read the letter rather than just throwing it out. The assignment as a whole really gave me a piece of what my future career is going to comprise of. I totally forgot that teachers pass those out weekly, monthly, or quarterly. I remember my mom loving an update on what was going on in my class, and I plan on using newsletters for the parents of my future students as well!!

It's been a great week folks, but this is where my post ends! Hope you enjoyed your coffee and this light read! Catch you next week ladies and gents!!

Feel free to take a look as my newsletter before you leave!

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