About Me

Hi! Welcome to my first ever blog! I have always wanted to create a blog to share ideas with other teachers, as well as my students and parents. I am looking forward to learning how this blogging stuff works so that I can continue to use it after this class.

A little bit about me, I was a classroom teacher for seven years.  For the first four years I taught first grade.  I enjoyed first grade but jumped at the opportunity to move to kindergarten when one of the K teachers retired.  In October of my second year of teaching kindergarten my principal moved the fifth grade-reading teacher out of the classroom and asked me to move to fifth.  It was a hard move to make, teaching five year olds one week then teaching 10 year olds the next, but I made it work and ended up enjoying fifth grade as well.  For two years I had an hour commute to and from work so when a third grade reading teacher position opened up in the county next to where I live I took the job.  This year I am working as a homebound teacher for the county I live in. 

I am actually working on my second Masters Degree in Reading & Writing Specialist.  I earned my Bachelors and first Masters Degree from EKU.  After I finished my graduate degree I said that I would NOT go back to school, but here I am.  Through my years of teaching I have learned that I love to teach reading.  I want to be the best reading teacher I can be so that is why I decided to get a second Masters in this program.

I am married and we will celebrate our 3^rd anniversary this summer.  We have a son who just turned one in March.  Our lives have definitely changed since he entered it, but I LOVE it.  Thanks to my flexible homebound schedule, this past year has been amazing as I have had the opportunity to stay home with him and watch him grow.  Although I have loved being at home with my little man, I have missed teaching and I am looking forward to being back in the classroom.