I am a teacher by default. In school, I was good at a lot of subjects, but didn’t shine in any. My job throughout high school was babysitting, which I enjoyed. When it came time to pick a major, I chose Early Childhood Education. It seemed easy enough.
Through the years, I’ve refined my teaching skills (thankfully) and fell into a job-sharing situation where I got to teach part-time. My subjects being Science, Social Studies, and Writing, I became knowledgeable in and then passionate about those areas. This year I begin a new adventure, going back to teaching full time.
As my own children grew older (currently both in college), I started having more time for other pursuits: kayaking, travel, mild middle-aged adventures, and writing for myself. Somewhere along the line I shifted from teacher to learner, from dispenser of knowledge to observer of life.
This blog represents the leakings of my brain and its accumulated thoughts and observations about life and learning onto the palette of the World Wide Web, where ideas can be blended, tested, and maybe even applied to life’s canvas.
I welcome your comments.
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Hi Mrs.Eberhard it’s me love the blog! now i want to go to alaska see you soon!!!
Hi, Brian! I’m so glad you read and enjoyed the blog! Isn’t Alaska such a neat place? I’d love to go back. In the meantime, though, there are lots of good books that can take you there. I think Mrs. Samaha is going to read Call of the Wild by Jack London with the class in October. It doesn’t take place in Alaska, but it is in the Yukon, which is very close by in Canada. I have a picture book about a school in Alaska called Recess at 20 Below. Can you imagine? We’ll have to search out some good books about Alaska to read until we can go there for real!
No kidding books can take us anywhere, but it’s still cold in Alaska
my mom was just mowing ( my dad is out of town) and she asks me to get her some water so I take the bottle and ice and water are spilled everywhere now i have to clean up ugh!!!
Love your blog. Yes, Joy is a standard and a very important one. How many times have I said, “School should be a joyous place.” I certainloy experienced the joy standard the day Ms. Fallaw and I, along with a few students,deocrated our tree. I’m already planning next year’s tree. Love your writing and your blog. Have a relaxing and joyful holiday and I’ll see you next year.
And the Office’s winning entry of “Best Charlie Brown Tree” was (one of) my favorites! Thanks for leading the way with joy and enthusiasm!
O.K. Should take more time with my typing and spelling. Hope you get the message anyway. The sentiment is accurate even if my spelling is not.
Thanks Mrs.Eberhard for the wonderful visit with Mrs.Courtney. I had fun and learned about how the Depression affected people’s daily lives.
Thanks Beth for your Blog and story about Boxwood House in the Hitchcock Woods. As a teenager growing up in Aiken Estates I spent endless hours exploring all the hunt trails, ponds, dams and forests of Hitchcock Woods. There was one interesting house at the top of a hill that we called the Ranger Station.. It had long since been vacated, windows removed or knocked out, doors gone etc. It was a spooky place. Me and some friends actually spent the night there as one of our `adventures`. It was scary! I recall many unusual things about this house in the middle of Hitchcock Woods, but one memory in particular sticks with me.
One time I was on the 2nd floor and entered the attic area from an access point there. While crawling through there I found a brass dagger! What was it doing hidden in the attic? Why were cast iron stoves and other kitchen equipment just tossed over the steep hill surrounding the house? What exactly was this house and what happened there?
These are the thoughts and questions I recall about that place. I would be interested if you knew anything about this place.
Jim
Jim, Thanks for reading! I believe the “Ranger Station” you played in was the Gamekeeper’s Lodge. (Houndslake backs up very close to it now.) That’s cool that you found a brass dagger in the attic! The Hitchcock Foundation might be glad to add that to their collection of artifacts found in the woods. The gamekeeper who lived there was responsible for managing the woods for the Hitchcocks, I believe. It was razed in the early 70s because of the threat of fire from squatters and vandals.
Thanks. That makes since. However, what game was he keeping? I thought fox hunting was the only sport.
I think “gamekeeper” was just a term used to describe the person who managed the woods and kept the trails clear, such as Bennett Tucker does now.