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Blog Update!

I'm just going to preface this by saying I'm not a great blogger, I never update. Anyone who checks my blog clearly knows this. I barely keep up with blogging when we do our yearly Slice of Life blog posts, and I actually like doing those! So, this school year I'm really putting all my effort into it. I've given myself a new goal. A goal I'm actually going to push myself to keep...Blog AT LEAST twice a week. I've even chosen the days and decided what to blog about those days to make it easier on myself...though I'm not sure as the year goes on that's what I'll stick with. These are the two topics I thought I could start with...

  • Motivational Monday
  • Word Wednesday
I figure Motivational Monday because one of my goals this year was to end each day with something positive to say, and I'm big on positive quotes and all that. I think this will come in handy as the year goes on and stress starts eating away at me. This will be a good outlet for me, a good way for me to remind myself to calm down and be positive, even about the little things....I've even got the perfect quote to start out with (although I'm posting it a day late...darn.)

And I have to thank a student for the Word Wednesday idea. Our team is being more vigorous with vocabulary words this year, adding them into our weekly study and every day language. I want to do the same for myself. We originally started studying them on Monday until a student brought it to my attention if we did it on Wednesday, we could have the phrase "Word Wednesday" which I love of course. The students will study three words a week, I will study one (I know...I'm getting off easy).                                                                                                                                
Let's see if this is successful!

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