Teach Dailey

Students are learning about the early European explorers in my classroom. Today, we used some of my favorite tools from  mrnussbaum.com . They traced routes, named continents, and described sea monsters. The students were so proud of their creations that they all wanted to share and discuss the topic further! We talked about why explorers wanted to find the most direct routes. We decided to call this the ice cream rule. If you had ice cream and you wanted to get home quickly you would want to take the most direct route, so that there would still be ice cream and not cream soup. I continue to be impressed by my student's creativity and passion to investigate history.

This week was so busy! We had back to school night, picture day, and were working hard to get back into the routine of school. This year I have 29 students, but I feel so much more organized than last year. It made all the difference to reflect over summer and work hard to prepare for the coming year.  I'm really impressed by how supportive everyone has been. Our amazing PTA, my grade level team, my btsa support provider, our new principal, and the special education team have really made our school feel like a family. It makes such a difference to look forward to going into work, because you know there are wonderful people there. Last year was great, but there seems to be something special about this year too! I appreciate that we all can lean on each other and do our best work to support the kiddos. My students and I were talking about resilience today. We looked at examples of famous "failures" and how they tried again after not being successful. It was so fun to se...