October Currently

Today I am linking up with Oh Boy Fourth Grade for the October Currently link up.

I'm spending the day today volunteering in Lisa Bee's classroom! (I'm teaching her class how to swing dance today!)

I've been though some major life upheaval in the last few months (If you are following along with my recap I will be getting to the good stuff soon, haha). I, however, am making the best of the situation and using it as an opportunity to do some volunteering, work in a different field, and getting back into writing. I am feeling more positive and excited to see what life has in store for me next!

Worldly Wednesday: Germany

Time for another Worldly Wednesday Post.

In April 2014, my friend and I went on a week long holiday to Germany. We stayed with a friend in Hamburg and did some touring around. 

We tried fischbrotchen, which translates into fish bread (fish sandwich).

That afternoon we went to the fairground, DOM.

This is how one spells Melissa in Germany.

This was from an outline of the Beatles in St. Paulie.

Hamburg by night.

 We took the train very early visit Berlin for the day.

This line traces the outline of the former Berlin Wall.

In front of the Brandenburg Gates.

The memorial to the murdered Jews of the holocaust. 

You can walk through the enormous monument.

Stood in front of part of the remaining Berlin Wall

Brandenburg Gate by night.

 We also took a day trip to a small village called Luneburg. It has some of the oldest buildings in Germany because it was one of only a few areas not destroyed during the war.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures from my trip. I can't wait to see what you have been up to!
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Sunday Scoop #1

Today I am linking up with Teaching Trio for their Sunday Scoop link party for the first time!

Using a nifty graphic organizer, each week you can list 3 things you HAVE to do, 2 things you HOPE to do, and one thing you are HAPPY to do as a nice intro to your week. I am looking forward to reading what everyone has in store!


Without further a do, here is my Sunday Scoop:

The David's Tea Facebook page has advertised free tea this weekend for a teachers, ECEs, and Teaching Assistants! I need to get myself down there today for some delicious tea!

I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend!



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Budding Blog Link Up

Hi there friends! Today I am linking up with I Heart Recess for her Budding Blog linky party. This is a linky party for baby blogs such as mine that still have less than 200 followers.

The idea is to answer some questions about my blogging and teaching in order to give a 'preview' of my blog to other readers out there.

1. Why did you start blogging?

I have been a blog 'stalker' for the past six months (since my buddy Lisa B showed me the light while I was her student teacher). During the summer Lisa shared that she had begun her blog, Grade 4 Buzz. I was intrigued, but was unsure that I had any useful information to share on a blog myself. I finally got the courage to take the plunge myself and start blogging about my experiences as both a new teacher and a 'foreign' teacher. Hopefully, I am providing useful information for those teachers just starting out, as well as gaining a wealth of information from the blogs that I now follow.

2. What is your favourite subject to teach and why?

I have to say that this one is a toss up between social studies and literacy, which I think is okay because they can be combined quite a bit. I love how interested and excited students get over social studies, it is a great subject to incorporate hands on examples into (for example, last year in my grade 4 placement class I implemented a ' black death simulation' activity that the kids loved. There is so much you can do with literacy and social studies (which is probably why my supply teaching bag is full of literacy activities, but not much else...)

3. Describe your teaching style.

I'm not sure I've fully developed a 'teaching style' yet, I would say that it's still in development. I try to keep my cool in the classroom (what's that saying about the duck looking calm on the surface but kicking its legs like mad under the water?), and really understand what is causing certain behaviours. I enjoy having fun with my class and creating interactive lessons, but this only works when you have a class dynamic that allows for it. As a supply teacher (starting in a few days), my biggest hope is to be able to hang onto the control of the classroom and be respected (wish me luck!).

4. Give three interesting facts about you.

     1. I love to paint my nails. In fact I was famous for it in my last placement. (Painting my nails is actually on my agenda for today!)

    2. I have a big of a shoe shopping problem.... I actually brought 11 pairs of shoes with me to England.

    3. I really enjoy cooking. I've been told that I have a knack for throwing the right combinations of foods and spices together.

5. Do you have a TPT store?

I don't currently have a TPT store, it's in the works I just haven't found the time yet (plus I'm not all that confident in my creations). Hopefully within the next year I will have something up.

This blog post was quite text heavy, let's lighten things up with a few pictures. These are ones that I forgot to add to my Norwich post.

Norwich Market

Trying out the latest hair style at the Norwich Castle Museum

Taking a chariot ride at Norwich Castle Museum

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Worldly Wednesday: Norwich, Norfolk

Last Friday Nan and I travelled to Norwich to meet my agency consultant to meet in person for the first time. Norwich is about a 40 minute trip on the train from where I live (Oulton Broad), and we left at a decent time in the morning.

Here are some pictures from the train.

The night before we left, we had written down Google Maps directions to get from the train station to the agency. Of course, we got lost. Luckily, we've met some very friendly people who were helpful in giving directions. We finally made it to the agency and had a lovely chat with my consultant.

Afterwards, we took a stroll through the market place, which was on a pedestrianized road lined with shops.

My consultant had told us about Norwich Castle and how we should visit it if we had the time.

On our way up to the castle!

The castle has been turned into a museum, so, there is a 'castle' part of the museum as well as displays of art, animals, and history.

This is a very large tea pot.

Here are instructions on how to don a toga. They even had togas to practice with. Of course I had to try it out too! Unfortunately the togas were only made for small people, oh well.

Going into the castle!

This is the entrance to the stairwell (one of those narrow twisty ones)

 Heading down the stairs (I started to feel claustrophobic half way down).

 In the basement of the castle they showed different types of prison set-ups and torture devices.

Here are some pictures from the balcony of the keep.

Look at the brave knight!

Here is a shot from the top of the well that was in the castle.

Inside the castle they had a smaller diorama of what the castle would have looked like back when it was in use.

Here is one of the many arrow slits in the walls.

Beautiful stained glass windows.

I took this photo walking back to the train station as we crossed a bridge, what a view!

That's all for this weeks

I hope you enjoyed my pictures from Norwich! I look forward to reading about what you all have been up to. Please link up below, and have a great week (you're half-way there!).