Interview

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I interviewed a family friend who is a 4th grade teacher at Tarver Elementary School.

Question: What do you like best about being a teacher?
Answer: The thing I like best about being a teacher is when I see a kid “get it.” Whatever the “it” may be. I love it when I hear kids explaining something to another kid and showing that they really understand.

Question: If you could live anywhere, were would it be?
Answer: I actually love living where I do BUT, I also think it would be very cool to live in NYC or Washington DC or San Francisco or Seattle or all of those places for about a year each. I would really like to have a motor home and just travel, travel, travel. Obviously, I would have LOTS of $$$ in this scenario!

Question: Why did you want to become a teacher?
Answer: Originally, I wanted to be a school librarian- mostly because I love reading aloud to kids. In order to become a Library Media Specialist, as they are now called, you must first get a teaching certificate and teach for at least one year. But once I got my own classroom, I decided I would much rather teach than be a librarian. I like having my own classroom

Question:Did you always want to be a teacher? If no, what other job did you want?
Answer: I actually did have another job in the airline industry for many years and I probably would have stayed there if not for 911. Although, even before 911, I was toying with the idea of becoming a teacher. I used to volunteer in Amelia’s classrooms and I started thinking, “I could do that. I could really do that!”If I could do another job, I would be a writer, or a rock star, or a news reporter, or queen of the universe 🙂

Question:If you could change anything about your job, what would it be?
Answer: The administration. I have way too many people, who don’t know how to do my job, whose job it is to tell me how to do my job. Very annoying! Also, I think school would be much better for students if we limited class size to about 20 students per classroom.

Turtles

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There are only seven species of sea turtles. Five of them are endangered. Turtles have existed for 215 million years. The leatherback sea turtles can weigh over 2,000 pounds. Turtles live on every continent except Antarctica. In all of Europe, there are only 2 species of turtles. Turtle shells are actually made of the turtles bones.

http://worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/turtle.html

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/pic/article.cfm?articleid=828

Surviving the Applewhites Review

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Surviving the Applewhites Chapters 1,2, and 3
In chapter 1, you learn about the main character, Jake. He is a juvenile delinquent who got banned from all of the public school systems in Rhode Island. He was then forced to go to a homeschooling place. I think that this could be an interesting book, because Jake and all of the other kids he will have to go to school with are polar opposites. They are goody two shoes, while Jake smokes and cusses. It will be interesting to see if they will get along. In chapters two and three, the other Applewhites are briefly introduced, and so is Jake’s grandfather, who is anxious to get rid of him. I think that I will become bored with this book, but hopefully it picks up soon action wise.