Meet Miss Alexander

Hi, I'm Miss Alexander and welcome to our classroom blog!  I invite you learn a little bit about me.  This is a picture of my Aunt Beverly and I before we left on a tour of Natchez, Mississippi.  She introduced me to my favorite past time-TRAVELING!  She took me to Italy (any place of my choice) after I graduated high school and it stuck.  Now I have been bitten by the travel bug and have a hard time staying in town. :)

I LOVE the Longhorns!  I'm currently looking at graduate programs at the University of North Texas.  I love everything about the campus and the esteem they have in the education world. 

I also love the Texans.  What a great season they had last year-very exciting.  I love spending time with my friends, too.  I go bowling with them a lot, and go to the movies and out to dinner.

I love Disney and especially Disneyland in California!  Yes, Disney World is more exciting but I love the one in California more.  I got to meet the whole Winnie the Pooh gang when I was there last summer.  I can't wait to go back again some day!

My Summer Travels:

This summer I went on two big trips.  I went to St. Louis, Missouri for a teacher conference on Whole Brain Teaching.  I had the opportunity of going to the Gateway Arch.  It's amazing and you should totally put it on your travel plans if you've never been.

 My big trip for the summer was IRELAND!  I went with a friend of mine and we toured the whole country, including Northern Ireland.  Here is a picture of the Blarney Castle which I climbed up to...

 ... Kiss the Blarney Stone!!  It was amazingly scary but completely exciting.  

While on the trip we stayed at two different castles-Dromoland and Ashford.  This would be Dromoland Castle at dusk, around 10:30pm (so late!).  

Hookin' em at the Cliffs of Moher.  Everywhere I go I take pictures of the hook 'em horns.  The Cliffs of Moher on the Western Coast of Ireland was breathtaking.

Ashford Castle was just as beautiful as any other place I've been.  I had a WONDERFUL trip!!  Ireland is an amazing country to visit. :)

Family:

This is my mom with my nephew Reuben.  We were at the airport to welcome my brother home from Afghanistan.  He's a marine.  

This is my nephew Lucas.  He just started kindergarten this year.  I love him and Reuben so much!!!!!

This is my brother and his wife.  They are both marines who are stationed in North Carolina.  I see them whenever I can...

My Childhood:

I know it's hard to believe but I was once a kid too!  This is me when I was a baby.

This is me when I broke my arm in kindergarten.  I fell off the carousel at Burger King, lol.  But it wasn't so bad.  I loved being a kid and I'm so glad I teach because it lets me be as close to a kid as possible!

I hope you learned a little bit more about me.  Comment below to let me know some things about you!

Welcome Third Graders!!!

Welcome back to school everyone!  And welcome to our class website!  Here you'll find homework resources, pictures of our activities and updates about the class.  I will be attempting to post videos of what we're learning as well, but that will be after I get permission from you, the parents.

You may want to BOOKMARK this site and check back in.  There will be fun incentives for commenting on our posts, too.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

First, let me show you a bit of our classroom to those who couldn't make it to Meet the Teacher.

 

The most noticeable part of our classroom is the extensive, organized library. I love to collect books and have them in various bins based on author, genre and series.  This is our series/author section with some Dr. Seuss characters on top.  The book bins line the entire left wall of our room.  

The back of our classroom hold our student computers and our travel theme. Each of the planes and globes have a student's name.  Miss McMeekin and I made the "Where learning takes flight!" posters.  

Our calendar is at the front of the room on our white board.

                                      

My area is at the back corner of our room behind the filing cabinet that I decorated thanks to ideas from Pinterest.  Pink is my favorite color and I'm a HUGE Longhorns fan!

And the end of our tour is at the left front of our room, on the white board.  This will be our schedule area where we keep track of all the important things going on with assignments and important dates.  These will be copied in the Time Tracker.  The desk you see will be where I'll work with each student in our small group.

All parents are welcome in the classroom to observe at anytime!  Just make sure to email me to set up a time.  

Welcome to Alexander Airways!!!!!