The Importance of Reading tour Children

     The Importance of reading to Our Children

          A good book has the power to extract you from this world and take you into another. Now, imagine giving our young children the opportunity to do that every night! THAT IS PRICELESS!!!  

      The first and most vital thing our kiddos start learning within their instructional journey is print; the alphabet: vowels and consonants. These make up phonemes, which in turn make up syllables and in turn words! It is trough words and life experiences that they are able to know the world around them.  

       In addition, reading to our children allows us to develop a strong bonding opportunity with them. It becomes quality time and a connection between us, them, the world and knowledge we are sharing with them during that time. While that takes place they feel, loved, cared for, secure, encouraged to learn and allowed to dream! 

          As parents it is our responsibility to direct our children in the right path. That is the path of education, learning, encouragement to do dream and want to do the impossible. When we show them how important reading and learning is, it becomes engraved in them. It is like a spark that lights up; a spark they will want to keep lit! Quoting one of my favorite authors, Dr. Seuss: “Oh, the Places you will go!!!” 

Love,

The New Teacher Jitters

The New Teacher Jitters

Once you land that long-waited teaching position, comes the excitement and the happiness, then settles the stress, nerves, and anxiety of what’s to come. 

To begin with, every new teaching job comes with a “New Teacher Academy”, which is a set of professional development days in which you will be presented with the mission, standards, and expectations your new school district will expect from you as a professional. Yes, it is a lot of new information, and it can be very overwhelming. However, keep In mind that everything you will learn during those days will not be to be done by day one! 

Some districts expect to see certain things physically in the classroom such as: learning or content objectives, anchor charts, evidence of student learning, student work, word walls, etc. These things can be easily done. 

Many of the overwhelming factors or those first couple of days of PD (Professional Development) as we call it, will be processes that may seem foreign at first but will eventually become second nature, such as: attendance, use of resources, behavior expectations, and use of particular programs to do specific things. 

Again, as you take all of these fist days of school year PD’s, do not stress or feel like you’re going bananas and want to run for the hills! DON’T!! Yes, it is a lot of hard work, but believe me, it is the most rewarding job ever when you’re putting your heart and soul into it!

So, remember to take one day at a time, organize yourself, learn from your peers, and teach with love!!

Love,

Suhaily