Me in a nutshell:

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My name is Arden Prucha and I will be teaching 2nd grade at J.A. Hargrave in the 2008-2009 school year. I graduated in the spring of 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education -Magna Cum Laude! I have taught 3rd grade for the past two years at Hargrave and am excited to teach a new grade! When I was younger I realized how much I loved children and my childhood friends would tell you I was a teacher then; always bossing the younger ones around. I had another passion when I was young that has been hidden until recently and that is photography. I love being able to capture blessed and pertinent moments in other's lives. It is my gift that I use to tell stories through art by capturing hearts onto a piece of glossy or matte paper. I am a mother to a beautiful and kind soul. His name is Pierson and he will be five in November. His gifts are compassion and unconditional love that he gives generously to all he comes in contact with. I would say that I am doing everything I ever dreamed of as a child: teaching, photography, and motherhood. I am a very lucky and blessed young woman.

A few cool things about my job are:
 1. I am able to work with children everyday and can often act like one myself (woohoo).
2. I am so fortunate to work with the best sister and "Teacher of the Year," Nicole Tomme.
3. Our day flies by because we have so much fun in the classroom - I truly feel that being called "weird" is an honor and I use that as a key teaching tool in our classroom.
4. My school has an amazing staff who is supportive, funny, and friendly.
5. I learn just as much as my students learn, if not more, each day.

3/14/08

Math Maniacs

Third Grade is an amazing year for math. We are learning all sorts of cool things like fractions, probability, area, perimeter, multiplication, division, temperature, arrays, pictographs, bar graphs, money, and 3 dimensional shapes. Here are some recent hands on activities we have created in math.


These are two separate math activities that we did. One was our fraction math. We learned how to divide up fractions using one plate. The visual aspect helped them learn that 1/4th is half of 1/2 and 1/8th is half of 1/4th.


The top pieces of art are our "MOSAIC MATH" pieces. The 3rd graders were having a difficult time with area. If the kids make something than they will understand it more. They were give a handful of one square inch tiles that they could create their Masterpiece with. They were so clever and with the art they had to label the area of their creation.

This is our "Favorite Chip" class graph. We first created bar graphs. I created the big blue one with their help and then each child used rulers and measurement to create an accurate bar graph of their own. The next day I showed them a pictograph where the key is the most valuable information. Each chip represents two students. You can see that "Cheetos" was the class favorite with "Funyuns" not far behind.




Posted by Arden Prucha at Friday, March 14, 2008

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