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Life As A Temp Teacher

Life of a Temp Teacher is not the same as a Permanent Teacher.  Our summers are not the same either.  Life for me as a temp means that every end of the school year, means not just packing up my classroom and putting it into cabinets so that the classroom can be cleaned during the summer, but rather packing up my classroom and bringing everything home.  Which for me, like many of you, is just about everything in my classroom, from books to the baskets they go in and the shelves the baskets go on.  My garage is no longer car friendly for the next few months.  With the hope and luck that I am offered a contract for the following school year.

I thought this was my year of not worrying.  I thought, my principal likes me, our numbers seem good,  I may not be offered a contract until end of summer, but I’m sure my principal will let me know the job is mine, we just have to wait for district to give the Okay.   But, not this year.  Yes, my principal likes me, and yes, my principal wants me back, but this year, the numbers are a little lower, and a teacher who was on leave is coming back.  My principal is still hoping that I can come back, but hope and an offer are two different things.

So I hit the pavement, or rather the internet, in search of a job again for next year.  The life of a temp, is not fun during the summer.  Yes, we need the break, but at the same time, we work all summer looking for a new job.  So as much as I want to relax, I worry, will I have a job next year.

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So I ask all of you Permanent Teachers, if you know a Temp Teacher, please reach out to them, reassure them that they will be fine.  I know my time will come.  I understand that teachers before me have gone through this.  It’s just as I enter into my 9th year of teaching, I would hope that I would begin to have a sense of security in the job, I feel called to do.

Kwik Stix Thin Stix


Kindergarten mess free painting

Art at your finger tips

Students with all levels of fine motor skills can learn to paint so easily with the new Kwik Stix Thin Stix.  Last year I was lucky enough to get a chance to work with the new Kwik Stix, and my third graders LOVED them.  They could not get enough of them.  we used them for everything, projects, rewards, presentations.

This year in kindergarten my students adore them!  They too can’t get enough of them.  They are so easy to use.  The Kwik Stix Thin Stix are like holding a pencil!  Exactly what we work on in kindergarten.  No more messy paint spilling on the table or floor!  No more water cups bumping and spilling!  Painting with finer detail using these new solid temera paint sticks without the mess!!

We read the book “The Greatest Snowman”, by Peter Hannan.  We than painted our very own “Greatest Snowman”, and put them into snowglobes.  This project would usually take me a week to do in small groups with my 29 Kindergartener’s, but with the Kwik Stix, and Kwik Stix Thin Stix I was able to get the entire class to paint in ONE DAY!!  Can you believe that?  ONE DAY!!!

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We had so much fun.  We used the Kwik Stix for the snow and snowman, we than used the Thin Stix for the details (details–BIG word in kindergarten!) on our snowman.

I know that next year I will be purchasing more sets of both the Kwik Stix, and the Kwik Stix Thin Stix.  They are an investment, but for me they are worth it because my students work comes out amazing, ALL students feel like they can achieve using this tool, and an added plus, my school OT teacher happen to pop in the day I was doing this project and she too fell in LOVE with this product and has since borrowed mine, and showed the other OT’s in our district just how awesome Kwik Stix and Kwik Stix Thin Stix really are.

I work at a title I school, and finding amazing tools like this for my little ones is a gift!!!!  I hope that you take the time to try these paints out with your own students.  Art and expression comes in all shapes and sizes from our youngest students to our oldest, and we should encourage our students to be creative!

You can find Kwik Stix and Kwik Stix Thin Stix at Amazon and Target.

Happy Painting Everyone!!!

 

Erin 

The Pencil Grip 3 Step Training Kit

This school year I taught Third Grade, and usually by Third Grade most of our students are holding the writing utensils the way that we as teachers would hope.  But every now and again we come across a student who is struggling to write, and their hand is always hurting.  We sit with them and ask them to write something for us, as we watch them write we see the problem right away.  They are holding their pencil incorrectly.

Most of the time as I watch my students write, if they are comfortable, their writing is nice, and their hand doesn´t hurt, I´m OK with how they hold their pencil.  But when we have that student who is struggling, I look to The Pencil Grip company to help my students.  Their 3 step training kit is wonderful.

I had such a student this year in Third Grade.

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She was writing slower, and complained a lot about her hand hurting.  In Third Grade there is so much writing, and students struggling because they are not holding their pencil correctly, can become overwhelmed with the work.  As a teacher we know that the muscles needed in our hands for fine motor skills are developed during K-1/2.  This student I was working with had not fully developed those muscles.  I began using the Pencil Grip 3 Step Training Kit with her.  Within three weeks her writing was so much neater.  She was writing more and faster, and was on her way really strengthening her hand muscles.  All but just holding her pencil correctly.

The hardest part for her was keeping her hands on the grip because she had trained them to hold writing utensil so differently.  But, she found that her hand hurt less and that she liked the way the pencil grip felt when she wrote.

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In three weeks my students hand hurt less, and she was writing so much more.  I highly recommend this kit for all teachers.  I know that I am going to order more and have several on hand for future use with students.

GIVEAWAY TIME!

Click on the link below to enter my Giveaway to get one set of The Pencil Grip 3 Step Training Kit!  It´s easy to enter, and you can enter up to once a day!

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Good Luck everyone, and Happy Writing!!

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