Welcome!

Welcome to my Blog! :)

 First and foremost, I am completely new to the whole blog world and hope that if any of you are choosing to read this then you will cut me some slack and hang in there while I work on making my blog the best that I can make it!

 I'm a Preschool Intervention Specialist, living in a small town in Ohio and working for the County Board of Developmental Disabilities. To say that I love my job is completely an understatement! If I could have pictured/imagined my dream job early in life, this would have PERFECT written all over it! I have wonderful, helpful and very supportive co-workers, great paraprofessionals (I would lose my mind without my assistant!) and work with a good group of parents and fantastic children! Of course I have my bad/stressful days like anyone else - but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't remember how fortunate I am that I've been given this opportunity to help children begin their educational journeys! :)

 I've been teaching for the last year and a half and have had the opportunity to read and explore a lot of amazing blogs! I've found a lot of great activities that have benefited my students greatly and would love to have the opportunity to share some of my own creations and finds with other teachers! Like a lot of people I am ALWAYS looking for a good deal and LOVE finding cheap things to use to manipulate learning inside my classroom. I have a knack for re-creating things that I've found online to suite the needs of my children and pride myself of creating simple and easy activity sheets to help jump start the learning process! While in college I always had this preconceived (and definitely unrealistic notion) that all of my worksheets and activities had to be colorful, unique and artsy to entertain my students and be meaningful to the learning process. Boy, was I wrong! Some of the best lessons that I have done have been taught using old materials and easy to navigate worksheets. So what you'll always find from this blog are easy and creative lessons using items that you can find around the house, buy second hand or find in a store for next to nothing! :) 

 If you have any questions along the way... Contact me! :) I love hearing from other teachers and educators and love picking new brains for ideas! I am far from the perfect teacher but I love learning right along with my students!!!