Backporch Buddy

One of my lovely friends was telling me the other day, as I was eating her ice cream, that she had gone to visit her lady doctor for the first time. Late last night as I was not sleeping, I remembered this and thought that I should have shared with her my favorite lady doctor story. Ready for it? Its a doozy...

 

Once upon a time I was at the lady doctor's. I reminded my doctor that lady-doctor-time-of-year was NOT my favorite time of year. She told me that it wasn't her favorite time of year either. I didn't know if she meant my time of year to come see her or her time of year to go see her own lady doctor. I prefer to think it was her own lady doctor experience. But I still think it is hilarious.

 

You may laugh now.

Also, on an unrelated note, its always a good day when you get to talk to your bestie:)

Chunk It Out

I took this photo today as I was walking to my car after school....

 

 

Don't worry, it is both autumn and winter this day. Don't forget it.

Sunday School Soapbox

Want to know something awful?

Matthew and I get to teach 12 year old Sunday School.

That's not the awful part. Just wait.

 

Imagine that you are me. A 23 year old girl. There are 5 12-13 year old boys in your class. And you have to teach them about chastity. 'What is chastity?' Good question young one. When I explain it to them- chastity is staying morally or sexually clean- half of them look up with a horrified expression and then look to the floor for the remainder of the lesson, one starts to giggle cause I just said sex, and the rest continue to sit in silence.

 

Joy. While this is a very important topic for these small people to learn, I wish that I didn't have to teach them about it. I made Matthew help with the strongest quotation, he thanked me for that later. And when we were finishing up we asked for questions, one of the boys said, 'If I have questions, I'll just ask my dad- not you.' That's fine. Please do talk to your dad about it.

 

Since the missionary age change happened, and the senior year of high school has turned into the freshman year of college, these kids need to know this stuff now. There is no time for them to learn by trial and error.

 

I'm no parent, this we know, but do you teach your kids about this stuff before they are 13? Or is that just too hopeful?

 

Don't know- don't judge.

Pinnin'

Once upon a time I pinned a recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies- I captioned it:

 

"Grinch cookies. Matthew loves the grinch."

 

Not that I think I am cool, but it has been re-pinned 270 times. Besides that people are lazy, I wanted to see if any of them also thought that Matthew loves the grinch. They definitely did. PEOPLE, GET YOUR OWN HUSBANDS TO TALK ABOUT, please! Leave my Matthew out of it.

Good News

4 Football wins this week. The Aggies won. The Packers won. And I won both of my Fantasy matchups. I know you were concerned about that. Its even better because last week there were 4 losses. Boo last week. Yay this week.

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Connecting School and Home Experiences

 

I don't remember having 'prototypical' experiences with social studies.

Actually, now that I think about it, my parents took us to some historical monuments when we were little.

 

I remember going to Promontory Point when I was younger. We went to the railroad site, went into the visitor center, watched the show, it was a lot of fun for me as a kid.

 

That's the only one that I can think of off the top of my head right this minute.

 

SO. I can see some ways to draw students' background knowledge in the social studies curriculum.

In geography, we can call on any memories of places that students have lived or visited and note the differences.

In U.S. history, students can bring in what they know of their families lives and heritage while living in the United States.

 

Lots of past experiences can help students to draw ties from social studies to their own lives.

The Frost Has Spoken

Today when I left for school, this is what I saw in my garden...

 

 

Gross right? Frost came last night and killed all of my plants. Good thing my mom was here last night and I picked all of my squash for her to take home.

 

After some help from my friend Sarah, (yeah, SHOUTOUT) I picked the pumpkins!

 

See, look...

 

They are pretty awesome. Just ask me.

Did you get anything good from your gardens?

 

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Affective Dimensions of Reading

 

Let's just get this straight right now, I love to read. It allows me a way to escape the world that I am in and go to another. I learn big words from reading. I like to read some of my favorite books over and over again, each time I can find or understand something that I did not see before, and my favorite parts always make my heart smile. I love to read. I might call myself a good reader, but only cause you ask.

 

Favorite books:

Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith - absolutely LOVE it.

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine - Favorite line... "Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. 'Have we met before, Lady?'"

Nicole - Jack Weyland - What kind of person would I be owning 30+ Weyland books and not having one on my favorites list?

 

When I was in elementary school I had a hard time when I was learning how to read. I had to go to a reading specialist in the school every week. Once I got the hang of it, I haven't stopped.

 

Matthew is always telling me that I have too many books. I don't think he understands.

 

The only time that I hate reading, is when I am assigned something to read. If I get to pick it, there is no problem but as soon as someone tells me that I have to, uh uh. Not going to happen.

 

Growing up, I often saw my father reading a variety of books. He always reads his scriptures, in English and Spanish. And he always reads books about surveying or engineer stuff. But he would also read a lot of other random books. And we always had a huge bookshelf filled with old classics.

 

When I have my own class, my students will have to read. I think if they are assigned a genre or a time period to read about, they should be able to choose a book. This should help them be more inclined to actually read it. Primary source documents are very important in social studies. When choosing primary source documents for my classes, I can try to find some that my students can find interesting or even related to.

 

Never seen me write so much? Don't get used to it.