Late but never boring!

   What a summer I am already having from learning about poor construction of roofs, preparing craft kits for my Entrepreneur Club, building shelves around my window in my sewing room, cutting down a wind torn tree, dealing with a contractor for pouring a cement floor under my porch with a roof, losing our internet because my husband weed whack the line and more. No rest for the weary!

Whoops! I should introduce myself. My name is Francine Chandler and proud to have survived a total of 57 years with so many fantastic experiences throughout my life time. I have been teaching 4^th and 5^th grade at J.F. Kennedy Montessori for the past six years. Before Kentucky, I taught in six years in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and eight years in Spokane, Washington as a certified teacher (substitute).

I just finished reading all the “Hunger Games”. My students kept asking me if I had seen the movie.  My response was if a movie is based on a book, I must read the book first before going to the movie. I am glad I read the book with the details first before seeing the movie.

Personal information about Francine Chandler

        Lived in Oregon, Washington, Ohio, Germany, Florida, Kentucky

Love to sew, travel, teach, read, learn

        Love to make crafts, work with power tools

       

        Enjoy remodeling myself, painting, cooking

        Enjoy fixing roofs, quilting, gardening, camping

       

        Ways to obtain Peace are hiking, solving problems,

                creating, seeing the twinkle in my students eyes

       

        What a reflexive type question! An area of success, I had with my students concerning literacy was that authors have a purpose for writing their information/stories. My students struggle with the concept of “Author Purpose” and the types of techniques the authors used to empathize their reasons. I saw that my students started to make connects with newspaper articles but I still need to continue to work on these concepts.

        An area of literacy I need to work on is utilizing my time efficiently as possible in my literacy groups. I find, I my students want to go deeper into concepts they are learning or misunderstanding. Another area I need to work on is learning how to maybe use blogging in my classroom.