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.

1/5/09

Welcome Back!

I don't know about you guys, but I LOVED every second of this holiday break. I hope you had some relaxtion, great celebrations, and pleanty of shuteye.





Now it is time to get back in gear with our brains rearin' and ready to focus on school. Here are this week's spelling words:


corn, door, horse, more, pour, store, hurries, cried, bring, brought, next, picture, read


*sugar *turned *hours





~We are focusing on "r - controlled" words using -or, -ore, -oor, -our and words where you "drop the Y add an -IED or -IES.


This week we are working on Subtraction with double digit numbers, weight, measurement, and reading about using clues to solve problems. Have fun practicing this week!


We will soon be learning about "borrowing" for subtraction so:
Below is "BIG OLD BOG" (the number that is *) who is the bigger number in either a one's, ten's, or hundreds column. I have them find "B.O.B." and if he is on bottom then we know we need to borrow from his top floor neighbor. We have them scratch out the next upper column (or the 10's), write a number that is ONE LESS (4-1= 3) and then peck the one you took away next to the column (one's) who borrowed.

Here is an image below that will allow you to help your children!!! This is a very difficult task for them to understand, so PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Posted by Arden Prucha at Monday, January 05, 2009

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