Teacher Week 2013

Welcome back! After the Utah Blogger Meet up, I have been challenged by What the Teacher Wants and The Teacher Wife to get my blog up and running for real. So, to get started, I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin for Teacher Week 2013!

Today's post is about...ME!

I am the youngest of 7. I have 2 brothers and 5 sisters who all loved (and still try) to mother me. I grew up in Orem, Utah. One brother, Ryan, is disabled. He has Cerebral Palsy and a seizure disorder that has caused his body to degenerate over the years. I have 2 siblings and their families that live in Germany and another one who's husband will be stationed over there shortly. I have 17 nieces and nephews, all of whom are adorable.

I graduated from BYU-Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, one of the coldest places ever I've decided. I have a bachelors in Early Childhood/Special Ed. I went the early childhood route.

Now my awesome teaching story.

My 1st year, I taught half day Kindergarten/ half day 1st/2nd reading intervention in Magna, UT at a year round school.

 I liked teaching year round. It made it so I could take a 2 week trip to Germany to see my siblings that live there. But at the end of the school year, they opened a new school nearby and we were losing many students, so I got surplused. I had a rough year so I was not particularly sad to go, but was very nervous about a new school and new faculty.

Enter Rosecrest.

I was now teaching 1st grade. I had my own classroom. I could decorate it however I wanted. 

My teammates were amazing! They were so helpful and full of great ideas! One particular teammate, knowing I was overwhelmed with trying to figure out a new grade, always made an extra copy of everything she did and gave it to me so I would have files of things to have my students do. It.saved.my.life.

Now I am about to start my 3rd year at Rosecrest, teaching 1st grade and I love every minute of it...most of the time. ;) Even moving classrooms : / (I'll post pictures of the new room tomorrow)

What about you? What is your story?

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Chio!