tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12973898644283801142024-03-19T01:30:37.692-07:00Mrs Voyles' ClassroomMrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-483385434321694572015-04-23T10:54:00.001-07:002015-04-23T10:54:57.621-07:00Food Drive Update! <div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
We did it!! The 2nd graders at ESC brought in 813 items (with more still rolling in)</div>
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to be donated to the food bank and this is what it looks like. We have learned so much from this project, but most importantly that it doesn't matter how old you are you can make a difference. Thank you for all of the support!!<br />
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Mrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-78697708504001398342015-04-08T19:27:00.000-07:002015-04-08T19:27:02.606-07:00Food Drive Challenge My second grade students are challenging others. See their challenge below!<br />
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<i>Would you like to join the Food Drive Challenge with East
Sac Elementary School in Sac City, Iowa? The challenge is to bring in 600 items or
more for your local food bank. We have over 55 people in Sac County who take
food from the food bank, which is about 30 families who would be hungry without
the help of our food bank. When our food bank runs out of food they have to go
to Des Moines, Iowa to get more. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Will you accept our challenge? Our teacher thought it might
be a lot of work, but we have proven her wrong. Our 2<sup>nd</sup> grade class
at ESC has planned the whole thing! We read the book <u>If the World Was a Village</u>
that taught us almost half the people in the world don’t have enough food to
eat. We wanted to do something to help! We started with visiting our local food
bank and asked them questions. They told us they needed items like canned goods
and things like shampoo and toilet paper. We then created a marketing
committee, a data keeping committee and a group to collect all of the food. We
decided to challenge the other grades to see who could bring in the most and
that is why we want to challenge you too! We will have our challenge from April
9<sup>th</sup>-23<sup>rd</sup>. Do you think you could beat our goal of 600
items? We will let you know how many items we bring in when we finish our
challenge. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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to answer them. She might even ask us for our help! We are so excited, please
join our challenge! <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Data Keeping Committee – East Sac County 2<sup>nd</sup>
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Mrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-19041466083578597952011-08-22T20:03:00.000-07:002011-08-22T20:03:08.329-07:00Talking the TalkToday is the first day back at school! What an exciting time for everyone involved with a school district; teachers entering refreshed and renewed after summer vacation, and students entering the school a year older, with new school supplies (one of my favorite things!), and new teachers. Every year I feel it is the job of the administrators to get everyone excited about coming back to school and giving it their all for another 180 days. This year our district had guest speaker, <a href="http://www.brentmatthias.com/">Brent Matthias</a> @BrentMatthais come to talk with us about the upcoming year. This short speech really got me thinking and excited about the school year that is upon us. The following are a few important points that I will take away from Brent's speech. <br />
<ul><li>TEAM - Being part of a team is a much better way to get things accomplished. There is no way I can do what I do without those around me for support. I would also like to feel that I'm a valuable asset to that team as well. Also, when working as a TEAM no one person should receive all of the credit. Give credit where credit is due. </li>
<li>MAKE A DIFFERENCE - As Dr. Fiene talked today he discussed each person who works in a school will make a difference in a child's life. You are to ask yourself what kind of difference will that be. Brent added on to this by reminding us that we spend more time with the children in our classes than their own parents. We need to take that responsibly seriously and make a POSITIVE difference.</li>
<li>BE GENEROUS - We heard two stories of Brent's generosity in the short time he was with us. He looks pretty successful. I know that I may not always be able to be generous with my money, but I know each day I can be generous with my time and talent. Not only will I reap the benefits, but so will the children that I work with </li>
<li>BE HAPPY - What more is there to say? If you can't say at the end of the day that the work you do and the people you surround yourself make you happy, than there is something wrong with your picture.</li>
</ul>Now back to the title of this post, "Talking the Talk". Typically when hearing this saying it is followed up by, "and walking the walk". I did hear a lot of talk today and now I have to continually challenge myself and those that are part of my team to now "walk the walk." <br />
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What does "walking that walk" look like? In my mind that means putting the children at the forefront of any decision making process and continuing to know that they are the business we are in. My job today as it is for the next 180 days of this school year is to challenge my students and make that positive difference in their life. Follow my journey this year and please continue to encourage me as I attempt to, "walk the walk" and not just "talk the talk". And if I'm able to accomplish this I know that I will BE HAPPY!<br />
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Mrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-29381795445626847162011-04-14T20:09:00.000-07:002011-04-14T20:09:19.624-07:00Small Town Pride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Saturday, April 9th our small Iowa communities were hit by 4 tornadoes. After spending some time in the basement praying I came to the surface to see my home was fine. As the reports started to come in I have been overwhelmed by the feeling of SO BLESSED. We had some wind damage and lost our old windmill, but other than about an hour without power my home was intact and my family was safe. However, others just miles away were not so lucky. Many have been completely devastated. With so much to be cleaned up our school decided to join the effort to help the farmers clean up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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On Wednesday more than 1100 students, teachers and other volunteers joined the effort to help with the clean up. At noon those volunteers headed to the Nemaha Fire Station to join in some food and fellowship. It was amazing to hear the stories from the students over lunch of what they have found. I heard from many of the families about how amazing it was to see busloads of kids cleaning up the fields and farms. Many stating that they couldn't have planted the fields until it was picked up. We all knew that it couldn't have been done without a HUGE effort. It's true what they say, many hands make for light work. We had such a great day that we were able to pick up more acres than they had set out to help with. What a great service learning project for these students. All day today the students couldn't help but talk about all of the farmers that they worked with and the things that they had found. I'm so proud of each of them! I'm full of PRIDE tonight to be from such a great community who really knows what it means to come together to help out! <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Some students felt making a Storybird would be the best way to spread the message.<br />
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After the discussion I challenged the students to spread their knowledge to others. There assignment was to get others excited about reading. Here is one student's thoughts on reading. Look for more to come. <br />
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Each student had the opportunity to choose a short portion of the story to read aloud to others. Here is a few of the student's choices.Mrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-55847062449462810342011-02-10T16:17:00.000-08:002011-02-10T16:17:07.560-08:00Hitting the WallToday I hit the WALL in my classroom. Nothing that I had planned for today seemed to go the way I expected it. However, just when I left the MS on a very low note and enter the HS I ran into one of my former students. When she left my room I was excited to see about the potential that she had. She greeted me with a hug and let me know she was getting all A's! This helped remind me that the work I am doing is making a difference. Maybe not everyday (like today) but all of the hard work is worth it! I'm looking forward to jumping over the wall and be off and running tomorrow. I'm not really sure yet, how, but I'm sure it will happen!Mrs. Voyles Classroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554432383402555737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297389864428380114.post-55716890771155248482011-01-30T17:26:00.000-08:002011-01-30T17:26:29.465-08:00Asking Why<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> As I sit here trying to make lesson plans for another week (that I wanted to have completed before leaving school Friday) I think back to the work that I've been doing and keep asking myself "WHY?" I feel that many times the lessons that are done in a classroom, including my own forget that question. I now know that changing something that seems so insignificant can make a huge impact, so now this is my step two; remember the "why" of my lesson.<br />
When I go into my classroom this week I know that sitting in front of me are 21st century learners. I know that what I am preparing them for might not even be developed yet. I do know however that if I can teach them to become <i>learners</i> that they will be successful in anything that they encounter. So do you suppose if I hand in my lesson plans with "Create learners by asking 'Why'" my principal will understand what I'm going to be doing all week?<br />
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</style> <![endif]--> I have sat down at my computer many times since I left the three day workshop by Angela Maiers to do some reflecting on the whole experience and I still can't seem to get it out of my head in an organized fashion. I know how amazing of an experience this was for me and all I want to do it shout about it and tell everyone. This experience reminds me of the times when I went away to be a camp councilor at a summer camp. I had the time of my life and then I came back to reality. I didn't know how to tell everyone about the experience I had, because they didn't get to experience it with me. I know that my friends soon started making fun of me for telling them all of my "camp stories", but it really was just that amazing!<br />
In comparison, I feel that is part of my job to come back and tell everyone about my stories. It is my job to pass along what I've learned. It is so important for all of the other teachers around me to hear this message. But I'm left wondering, how can I put those three terrific days into one message and how am I going to get it across.<br />
The message that I hope to spread is, "You are Genius and the world demands your contribution". <br />
I am still not sure how I'm going to spread the word, but this is my start. I look forward to learning more through this journey and always remembering each child in my presents is genius and they need to be contributing to the world! <br />
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