A BUGGY of a Time!

Hello Hello!  I am still here, man this year has been so hard for me to find time to blog.  I wish there was more energy in my body and more time in a day for me to just sit and blog.  I manage to pinterest and facebook but that is usually during my 40 minute lunch period and it is on my cell phone.

March and April were and have  been a blast!  We are having so much fun.  I love this time of year because for the most part everyone is 100% on the same page and completely understand my expectations.  I don't have to direct teach as much and I don't have to worry about students forgetting our routine and rules. :D

My main focus is on reading and getting every student ready for first grade.

We only have 7 more Mondays left of this school year. Amazing! And I am 6 months pregnant with a baby boy!!!!  Today one of my students told me Mrs. Ayala your tummy is finally getting bigger!!   We have a field trip coming up, end of year activities and of coarse graduation on May 24th!

                                

                                 

                                  

                                 

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from me and my little bunnies!!

Happy March

Hi everyone! It is a beautiful Sunday!  We have done so much in kindergarten class and we are preparing for a fun filled TX Public SCHOOLs Week this coming week. Right after that we will be off for SPRING BREAK!!
Here is a little bit of what we have done in February and March so far!!
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 On February 4th we celebrated our 100th Day of school.  Each hat was made by the kids, there are ten strips with ten stamps or stickers on each strip to  represent 100.

 Fruit Loop Necklaces

 Happy Valentine's Day!

Patterns, How many Sweetheart candies can you stack?, Friendship Sundaes

 Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Thing 1 Thing 2 Jello Treats, Fox in Socks Day, Dr. Seuss Hat Day, Wacky Wednesday (blue hair), and Green Day: Oobleck and Green Eggs and Ham

I hope you enjoyed these pictures, thanks to PINTEREST I have been inspired to do many activities in my classroom.  Look back next week for Tx Public Schools Week activities.

Course Reflection

Hi everyone!
I am so happy that I am completing another course in my masters program. I have had almost no time to blog on top of everything else.   I am trying to keep up and I am looking forward to spring break so that I can sit down and blog and tell you all about what I have been doing for the last few months in and out of my classroom.

For now here is a course reflection that I am linking to turn in my assignment.

Digital Graphic 5366 Reflection

Michelle Ayala

Lamar University-Masters

Reflection

            What an amazing time I have had learning about Digital Graphics.  I was really worried at first but as I went through the coursework I gained much more confidence in my abilities to incorporate graphics and technology in education. 

            Building a website to communicate with parents and community is a great way to connect school and home for children and parents.  As of today I have helped build three websites and all have been to benefit parents and students in education.  I am an author of my own classroom blog and it has opened a world of doors for me as an educator and as a parent.  The amount of feedback that I get from parents and family members about communicating through a website has been amazing.  Recently I have had the opportunity to become a digital classroom, which means I am utilizing twenty three ipads in my classroom with an apple tv.   Being a digital classroom is a work in progress but we as a district are working into technology and learning more and more every day.

            I strongly encourage educators and administrators to read the readings we had for this course, and especially the YouTube tutorials for our assignments. They were very informative and easy to follow.  As educators unless we research and use technology it will be very difficult to gain confidence and incorporate it into your classroom or school.

            In the end I find this course to be amazing because I love technology.  I love technology can make me a stronger teacher and how it engages students today.  Students love tablets, animation, music, and the World Wide Web.  We need to tune into what our students are into today and use the tools that they are so familiar with to learn new objectives.

Digital Design

Happy January everyone!!  I am in full swing, I just started a new class in my masters program which means new adventures and NEW HOMEWORK!

EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics and Web Design

As I began to click and explore through The Bible of Ethiopia I was amazed, besides watching the occasional history channel I had never first handily flipped through such an aged artifact in my life.  My first impression was that I loved the contrast that was used by the author, there is clearly color in not only the illustrations but in the important texts and headlines that are important.  The repetition and alignment are clearly seen throughout the book, many of the illustrations are repeated and the boarder around each page is repeated. The font, which is really handwritten is beautiful, now days we just pick a font online, imagine writing in the same font for hundreds of pages, I couldn't do it.

Check out these virtual books:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/viewall/index.html#

Happy Holidays

I'm here, I'm here, I'm here!!

Boy have I been gone a long time or what!! I have been terribly busy with finishing a class and turning in finals, Christmas shopping, entertaining my two boys during their holiday vacation all while being nauseated (I will spare you the gruesome details) and trying to stay awake long enough to have fun during my Christmas break.

Being 9 weeks pregnant, getting my masters, being a mother to my 2 boys, a wife to my husband, blogging, facebooking, etc. seems like it is going to be the most challenging time in my life.
Oh and did I mention that I am turning the BIG----3----0 on January 12th! NOOOOOOOOO!  I can't even put the three in front of the zero with out freaking out! LOL!

My twenties were so much fun, both my sons were born in my twenties, I got married in my twenties, I received my bachelor's degree when I was in my twenties, we bought our first house in my twenties, and I was awarded TEACHER of the YEAR in my twenties!! What more could a girl ask for?

And let's not forget I started blogging, pinning, and facebooking in my twenties.  Whoa, what is 3    0   going to bring?  I know one thing is for sure!  A new addition to our family!  And yes we are really hoping PINK PINK PINK!!

I am hoping that I won't be missing in action for so many days again! Don't forget about me, I am still here!!

Convection WHAT?

EDLD 5363 Collaborative Assignment