Hi, first in foremost I am a mommy to a brilliant 10-year-old little boy. I am married to my husband Duane, however, he is not just my husband he is my best friend; the one who has seen me fail and succeed, made me laugh and held me when I cry. The lord gave me two wonderful gifts when he put my husband in my life and then my son. We live in TN where I am attending APSU to get my degree in Elementary Education (k-6). We have one Dog, Mackenzie Ann. I owe everything in my life to God, he has blessed me, gotten me through many rough times, and is continuing to work in my life. As of right now, what I do is, I am a full time student, a mommy, a wife, and lastly I teach 4-5th grade life group at my church.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Animoto great tool!!


Copy of Honey Suckle Farms 2013

I love this and will be buying the full version! This would be great to use on parent teacher night or anytime you may have parents coming to the room (i.e. parties) you can create a video of their children doing their work, activities etc.




Thursday, October 17, 2013

Thing 16 So Much to be done :)






So I choose to use Symballo, I choose this one because set up was easy! I rearranged the pins to fit my needs. I even created my own pin for Kholes (that was neat). I am thinking I just might make this my home page I can add all of my tabs that I have booked mark and there I have it! 

I like online calendars because it is a great tool to add a lot dates that may need to be given to a group of people in one click. They can then sync them with their own calendars. However, as a tool for everyday use not really sure I prefer my phone! 

As far is usefulness I feel that many tools are great for home and some would work for school. As a student I think I really like the PDF converter

Monday, September 9, 2013

Thing 9 :)



These are two links I used to create these neat generators: http://www.imagechef.com/ and http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/ The tree is showing that my husband and I got together and created our little family! The smiley is just a fun way to tell others I would love to hear from them! Over all it was very easy I just typed in what I wanted to say and the website created my images. After that all I had to do was paste the HTML link! The smiley would be a great way to leave creative notes for your students around your room. As well as image chef they had all kinds of different type of images that would make cute notes for your students. You can have them create headings for projects, or use them for positive and encouraging statements to your students, others and even

yourself.

ImageChef.com - Get codes for Facebook, Hi5, MySpace and more
Duane Gray & Cynthia Gray = Chase Gray
 

Friday, September 6, 2013

Thing 8/ Fun with puzzles and words

letter C letter R E is for Elves. letter A John Crane Classic Block Letter T O is for Open. letter R
  


I had way to much FUN with this I used spell with Flickr and My big huge Lab; both of these are fun tools to use and would be great in the classroom. I would use the spell with Flickr in my classroom by giving each kid a spelling word and have him or her create it and place it in the room.



My Husband and I in Car circle

My dog Mack (the black one) and her best friend Gracie (relaxing)


Once again (as stated in thing 7), I do not mind sharing some photos but letting people use photos of my son that is a whole other topic. Not a big fan of that at all! I feel this also goes for in the classroom I know there are rules out there that do not allow you to put your students on the web. We as parents and teachers really need to be CAREFUL!