Writings

=My Writings during Project WRITE=

**New Friend** **Day 1, Oct 19.** Tammy Brost, dedicated teacher and mother of 4. She is graduate of the University of Michigan- Flint earning her a teaching degree in Elementary Education with an early childhood endorsement. Tammy being the dedicated teacher that she is then went on to complete her graduate work also in Early Childhood Education at Saginaw Valley. Tammy was a teacher for 5 years in Michigan before moving to teach in Tennessee for a year. She then returned to Michigan and has been teacher in Byron ever since. She is currently a 5th grade teacher in the Byron School District. She loves teaching and is very interested in learning more about teaching upper elementary students to improve their writing. Even though she has been a teacher for 15 years I can see she is still passionate about it. Tammy has had the opportunity over the years to teach many different grade levels from Kindergarten to 5th grade. She feels very confident in her ability to teach emergent readers and writers but feel a need to learn new strategies to teach 5th graders to become better writers. Tammy is a dedicated mother to her 4 children. Her three boys are in the 9th, 7th, and 5th grade. She loves her boys but always dreamed of having a little girl. Her dream came true 6 years ago. ||

My First
By the time you reach my age you have had many firsts. Everything we do new becomes an experience we can add to our list of firsts. At my age is seems my memories of childhood have become lost or at best muddled. Most of my memories have to do with my quest for independence and adulthood. I can remember the time I ran away from home because I felt my parents had placed unreasonable limitations on my freedom, and the time I wanted to spend with my boyfriend. I left my home after and angry argument with my parents. How could they be so unreasonable? I was a good kid in fact I thought I was a great kid. I never was in trouble in school and I always had good grades. Now you can see that I only say good and not excellent. I was not an excellent student in High School like I was in college.

__**May 5**__

**Sounds**

 * Writing lesson**

Play sounds and have students write down what they think made the sound and a memory associated with the sound

1. tambourine 2. cow bell: Football games, when my sons team scored there was a very enthusiastic family that all came with cow bells. 3. ? Sounds a little like a crabby duck 4. marbles rubbing together Rocks/landscaping 5. bell: Sounds like the Christmas bell my son gave to our neighbor as a gift 6. Wood hitting together 7. Big wind chimes: Hear them in the store I always like to ring them and that irritates my children. I also push the buttons on all of the musical animals 8. Metal dropping on a floor rolling sound. Marbles in a plastic container: jacks...chinese jump rope 9. ? Sounds a little like my daughters clacking cow 10. Cell phone ring: I hate when people answer their phone in public places. Or during a concert, movie or class. I do not like to talk on my cell phone 11. Outside ceramic chime/bell

As I sit enjoying the movie the sound of rap music rips through the silence of a previous dramatic moment. Next I hear. "Hello!" Ya girl! I'm here watching this movie!" My attention is immediately ripped from the action in the movie to the conversation the woman is having on her cell phone. They are everywhere! Not a day goes by where a cell phone rings in a place where it is not appropriate to have a cell phone on. Why do some people believe it is alright to interupt others with the noise of their cell phone ringing. It seems that I live in a world were people are addicted to their cell phones.