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I am a teacher who loves to read, travel, and help others. I hope this blog will help me connect with my students and share some ideas and stories of my journey.

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Delphi

We had a really interesting week. First, on Tuesday we started to decorate our bulletin boards for our Greek city-states. It was really fun to start from scratch and be able to pick the colors and stuff. In science one day we started a lab when we would look in a microscope to see all […]

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Thebes

This week (3/11-3/15) we are adjusting back into school mode and focusing on the amazing Greek Olympics! We all are organized into groups and we have our city-state names. In science, we are about to start the study of the body, which is really exciting! In math, we are leaving behind fractions and starting a […]

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Flourish

The faculty at Trinity School has begun a new blog project called Flourish. We have found it is a great way to share experiences or happenings around our community in an easy way. Teachers sign up to write short posts about anything they choose. I wrote my first Flourish post and it was published today. […]

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Miss Walker

Well it has been a crazy January and February here, especially this week. Since it would take forever to catch you up, I will spare you all the tedious details. Just know, we are learning and having a blast! This week we had student-led conferences, which personally I love. I know it is not always […]

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Jack and Seth

This week started out sort of gloomy, as it was raining all of the week except Friday, but it was still a very good one. Monday was a typical F-day, very busy and hectic. We learned a dance in music, and researched an artist for a project in art. We had volleyball in P.E., and […]

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Kate and Claire

By: Kate and Claire This week we learned about how to get inspired for writing. We did that by walking around the school listening and watching the things that were happening. In P.E. we did boot camp for half of the class and then finished with our ultimate Frisbee unit. Now we started the hockey […]

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Walker’s Weekly Update: Thanksgiving

I hate to be cheesy, but as we approach Thanksgiving I can’t help but think about being thankful. I know I can get caught up in everything else going on during the holiday and forget the real meaning of Thanksgiving.  We skip right to the yummy turkey and dressing, sweet pumpkin pies, and traditions that […]

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Sophie and Kate

This week we practiced A LOT for the Nutcracker. Each group had different practice times, even a few costume fittings. Our class is very excited for the performance. Most of us were very nervous about the dreaded student-led conferences, but they weren’t as bad as we thought! 🙂  Also, We finished our fall acrostic poems […]

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Classroom News According to Hector and Julia

On Tuesday we were very excited to take home our laptops :-). On Tuesday we had music. We got to practice our parts for the Nutcracker. Hector practiced being a  Russian Baker and Julia practiced her Candy Cane dance. That was our day on Tuesday. On Wednesday we came back with our computers! It was […]

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Our Walker Week: Class News According to Riley

This week went by super fast for me. I’m going to tell it to you day by day. Monday: Today we learned about a project we would have to called the “Who I Am” project. It is really cool because we get a lot of freedom on it. Today was also really fun because we […]

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