Ideas Keep Coming!!!
My mind has been racing this weekend with many ideas on incorporating a blog into my classroom as well as sharing the idea with other teachers at my school. I have not quit talking to my friends and family who are not educators about all the new information I learned last week and have even been trying to encourage some of them to start blogs for their families. I have kept my laptop plugged in all weekend when I have not been on it so that I can play and look around for ideas at any time!
My best friend, whom I have been friends with since before Kindergarten, is moving to Bahrain with her husband and three children. He got a great job opportunity that they just cant pass up. I cry every time I think about it, including now while typing. I have been trying to help her all weekend to start a blog so that all her friends and family in the US can easily keep up with what is going on. We have also been talking about using SKYPE to communicate more often while they are gone. She has twin girls and I have a little boy, all who are 3 1/2 and I think it will be very encouraging as well as a learning experience for the children to be able to talk that way. I also want my classroom to write to Jamie and her family as a pen-pal experience and share things with eachother that are going on in both countries. I think my students will greatly benefit from seeing how people of other cultures live!
