The hardest balance in my class is keeping my lessons engaging while meeting all the standards required. I am
extremely lucky to have children who are excited about learning and truly enjoy
school and I try hard to keep this joy of school going. Ms. Cassidy’s class is
a blog by a teacher in Canada. Within minutes of scrolling the blog I found so
many great ideas that would be so useful in a kindergarten classroom. One of
the most amazing things about Ms. Cassidy’s website are the submissions from
various teachers from all over. Not only do you get great ideas from Ms.
Cassidy herself, but also ideas from teachers from all over! Ms. Cassidy really
uses technology to her advantage and as an amazing tool for her students. One
post featured her children reading to someone over Skype (I would have NEVER
thought of this!! But how cool is this?! A way to integrate technology and
getting the children so excited to read!). Her class interacts with classes all
over the world and it is so inspiring to see the connections made and the
lessons that the children really learn since they truly enjoy them.
Aside from the material on the blog, I really enjoy the
layout of Ms. Cassidy’s blog. It’s really clean and simple. I enjoy browsing
teacher blogs in my spare time and I have noticed that many tend to have really
‘busy’ patterned backgrounds with a bunch of sponsor links and pinterest
widgets, it can sometimes be overwhelming. She tags many of her posts so it’s
easy to find posts related to certain subjects, which is always a plus!
