January 23-27

Monday, January 23

Mrs. Turner went over what we were doing with our Froggy Friends on Friday and let us know about a service hour opportunity by attending a School Board Meeting (the fourth Tuesday in every month). As a class we shared what we on during our Cerel Talks and our High School Observations at Mauldin and Greeville Tech Charter.


Tuesday, January 24

Buffy is 18 years young! We discussed the Family Night Basket for the Silent Auction. All basket goodies are due on Monday, January 30th. Then we went to B250 to work on our scavenger hunt.


Wednesday, January 25

Kelsey made a delicious chocolate cake for all of the January birthdays! Ms. Robert visited and told us about the Pixar guy coming. The cost is $1. Ms. Turner taught us Bloom's Taxonomy ad we took notes. Then she gave us a reference sheet for Bloom's Taxonomy. We buddied up and then began reading a selected children's book.
Thursday, January 26
We finished up our work from Wednesday, where we made up tests with questions that went with our children's book and gave the test to another group.


Friday, January 27

We visited with our Froggy Friends and got to celebrate the 100th day of school with them! Everyone had a great time!

“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” - Ignacio Estrada

Teacher Cadets January 17-20

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's hard to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys." -Anon

Monday Jan 16: Martin Lurther King Jr Day. No school.

Tuesday Jan 17: Mrs. Turner gives us important dates and info (housekeeping). Also, we are given an assignment to find a high school teacher and shadow them for the next morning.

Wednesday Jan 18: Everyone shadows the teacher of their choice...I choose Mrs. Blount. We are asked to take notes on what we observed. We return back to class and write questions for our cereal talks as well as sign up for teachers to talk with.

Thursday Jan 19: MORNING OF OUR CEREAL TALKS! 2 students are paired with teachers of their choice and ask them questions regarding teaching all over enjoying a nice cup of cereal. We enjoyed juice, cereal, and getting to know our teachers a little bit better. I had Ms. Biggs and she was interesting because although she was a new teacher, she still had so many stories just for 2 years.



Friday Jan 20: (Day of Jason Aldean concert!) Today we took a class trip to Greenville Technical Charter High School. Office K came with us and knew almost every student there. We learned that the reason why it was a charter school was because it keeps their classes small allowing them to know their students personally. We saw english, history, science, and a mandarin !classroom! At the end we split up and got to sit in one a classroom. And when we were leaving I discovered I lost my earring.

Midterm Presentations

The Cadets impressed Professor Kimbrell with their midterm presentations. He said they were the BEST he has seen yet. I'm so proud of you all!!!!




More fun stuff!!!




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January 2 - 6

Monday, January 2 - FINALLY 2012! 150 days until graduation. Everyone was pretty upset about being back at school when the entire world was off, but we all somehow managed to survive the winter break hangover. Mrs. Turner asked about our winter breaks and we all shared fun stories, but then it was time to get down to business and we were told all about our mid-term and then she yelled at us about being slackers (that may be a tad bit exaggerated). She also told us about our timeline project and we all got in groups to start working on it.

Tuesday, January 3 - 149 days until graduation. We were all pretty busy working on our timeline projects and that took up pretty much the entire class period.

Wednesday, January 4 - 148 days until graduation. We had our last bucket morning, which means that every teacher now has a bucket on their door! Although bucket morning is intended to be before class hours, it always manages to take over the entire class period, so we all worked on buckets and then worked on our timeline projects with whatever class time was left.

Thursday, January 5 - 147 days until graduation. We presented our timeline projects. It was really cool to hear about all the changes throughout the past 100 years. Although it would be cool to live in the 50s with poodle skirts and diners and things, I definitely could not live without my technology!












Friday, January 6 - Best day of the week and only 146 days until graduation. We have our brochure mid-term project due on Tuesday, so we spent the entire class period working on them in the library.

WEEK BEFORE BREAKKKK :)

December 12-16

Monday! We continued watching Freedom Writers. I love this movie so much! :)

Tuesday! We watched Freedom Writers, but had to turn it off right before the end. That kinda sucked. We were so close to finishing but the bell rang. Who needs second period? :( haha

Wednesday! We finally finished up Freedom Writers and briefly talked about it. After that, we discussed dabatable topics. It was really interesting to hear my friend's opinions on some of these things. I thought it was good to discuss because these issues are happening now.

Thursday! SURPRISE!!! We went and surprised our Froggy Friends at MES. They put on the cutest Christmas concert I have ever seen in my entire life. Their little faces were so cute when they saw all of us sitting in the audience.

Friday! We had a Christmas party with our Froggy Friends!!! We got to exchange gifts and hang out with them. They were so wild and excied but it was so precious.

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." - Unknown

Week of December 5-9

Monday and Tuesday: On Monday and Tuesday we continued to go on Middle School observations at various schools. I went to a music class and the time flied by! On Tuesday I stayed at Mauldin high to watch the Ron Clark interviews and helped with clipboards. Ron Clark is an inspiration for us all!

Wednesday: Wednesday was bucket day! We spent the class doing our favorite thing, making buckets!

Thursday: We watched one of my favorite movies, The Freedom Writers. I didn't want to leave class because that movie is so good!

Friday: Friday we took our Teacher Cadet Picture for the year book. After, we continued our movie.