I took two classes on teaching English Language Learners (ELL). I don’t want to write another paper about how to help. I’ve already written more than ten. They all say the same thing. The more exposure and use the child gets out of a language the better. This is true for anyone! I don’t want to find 5-7 articles in the library to prove my point ( Read more... )

August 29, 2013 ( Read more... )

Trying to get Snowdrops all up to date. But I can’t get the pages to work. I don’t want to fight with it, so I’m not going too. Perhaps it’s one of those things where eventually, they’ll work. If not, I have no idea what to do but go “CHERRRI” or “MIKARI!” But I always feel silly having to ask for help because I feel like this is stuff I should ( Read more... )

Been sleeping oddly. Not bad, just very vivid dreams. Last night I dreamt that Pengtwin and Mikari were living together. They lived near the ocean and Mikari always wanted snacks. It made it super easy to visit them and hang out. I also have a dream about once a week, that I’m back teaching kindergarten (which is fantastic ( Read more... )

I innocently asked Mikari and Cherri if they would make a Reno and Sephiroth (respectively) shrine if I made a Vincent one. Mikari has delivered! So now I’m all inspired to work on a Vincent one, but I keep getting distracted looking for images. I’m not sure I can get anything coherent on a page (which is the point of the project). I think I’ll ( Read more... )

I’m going through writing prompts that I want to do one day. Some of them just make me go “Dammit Cherri!” xD And actually, they would be really fun stories to write. But since my initial reaction is just the two words, they don’t really prompt anything ( Read more... )

April 29, 2013
Got three and a half hours of my practicum completed! Yes! That’s a pretty good start for the first day. I’ll work slowly on the one-on-one tutoring. It’s hard to tutor k-kids because they have very short attention spans. I’m hoping to work with one little girl in particular since her native language is Japanese (I bet her Japanese ( Read more... )

New Thursday, new week! I’ve been successful in getting my group to brainstorm a bit. I’ve also been successful in having four (of six) members pick out subjects for lesson plans. I feel pretty good about that! It also looks like we’ll be using food/candy as the unit theme. I feel like it’s going pretty well so far! I’ll be doing a lot more ( Read more... )

3.18.2013Getting ready to register for the CSET again! Boo. I can do it, though! I have to take all here tests over again. That’s butts, but it’s not a problem. At least it’ll be a little cheaper that way than if I had to take them individually (rather I they system wouldn’t let me take them separately). I also need to take the CBEST which has the ( Read more... )

I have half of my hours schedule for this class ( Read more... )