Love, Laugh, and Teach

08/06/2023

Sitting under an amazing sky at the game! 3-1 win! 🦉

07/30/2023

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲—𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲
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Back in January, I started trying out different planners to see which one was the best for me. I’ve had really good experiences with all of them. So how did I use these major forces of planning… and which one will I be sticking with?
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𝗛𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀: I bought the mega on this one. I honestly wasn’t sure how I was going to use this one at first because it’s so small, and I’d never used small planners before. I started using it as more of a to-do list, decorated it, and promptly stopped using it. More to come on this.
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𝗛𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻: This was more my typical size. Paper Snobs, the Weeks and the Cousin have amazing paper, btw. I left the Weeks behind because I was using the Cousin. However, I quickly found out that I was leaving a lot of blank space on the paper. I stopped using it after about a month. Was the Weeks really the one I should be using? 🤔
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𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿: I think everyone loves Happy Planner. This was my first time trying a spiral instead of their ring system. I struggled with the inability to take my pages out and move them around. The planner itself is awesome, but I will not be using it as a personal planner.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗕𝘂𝘀𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿: It’s pages are premade, and they have great material on them such as a reminders, to-do lists, a notes section, goal setting, habit building and more. Each spread is a week, and the pages are undated. If you are someone who likes to move in and out of planners, you really need to try this planner out! But it was just too big to carry in my purse.
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@𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗰𝗼: I decided to buy this planner because it has the same paper as the Weeks and Cousin, but it let me plan my pages. I bought the B5 so it was smaller than the Cousin and larger than the weeks. Soon, I realized that I really suck at planning my own pages, but I had fallen in love with the notebook itself.
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So which one did I actually end up with? After all of that, I ended up with the planner I started with—the Hobonichi Weeks, and I use the Planner Monkey notebook as my journal. 📔

05/24/2023

The best part of teaching. 💕

04/11/2023

𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲?
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As we are getting ready to do our Romeo and Juliet unit at school, my colleague put together a slide of Shake or Fake where kids see a line of verse and have to identify if it’s Shakespeare 📜 or a song lyric. 🎶
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The students put their answers on their desks using dry erase markers. A good portion of the lyrics came from Eminem. That must have been the inspiration for this impromptu drawing on one of my desks. 😂
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04/06/2023

𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿? Buy a couple of cheap chessboard set and have different class periods play each other in chess! ♟️ It’s been so fun to watch!
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03/23/2023

Neurodiversity in the Classroom I'm currently reading neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strengths-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life. I highly recommend this book. It's a really good read for someone who is just starting with their UDL journey in education. Organization of the Book Chapter 1 focuses on the concept of neurodiversity, its background, and the author's view of the strengths-based concept....

I highly recommend Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Dr. Thomas Armstrong. It's a great read for someone just starting their UDL journey in education.