Oh, The Places You Will Go!

Oh, the places you’ll go when teaching for DoDDS.

How exciting to be hired, I don’t know the odds.

They may send you to Germany, Italy or Japan.

Flying in airplanes, you must be a fan.

Once you arrive, new people you meet,

new teachers, new parents, new children so sweet.

A new country, a new language, new customs and foods,

you must try them all, you mustn’t be rude.

Oh the places you’ll go when teaching for DoDDS.

The chances to travel can leave you quite awed.

Venice with bridges and lots of canals,

shopping in London with some of your pals.

Paris, Berlin, Lisbon and Rome,

a week in Croatia and then it’s back home.

Guinness in Dublin, paella in Madrid,

Belgian chocolate for breakfast, heaven forbid!

Oh, the places you’ll go when teaching for DoDDS.

How fortunate I am to be living abroad.

To do what I love, to teach the military child, to represent
 the USA with a happy heart and big smile!

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Kindness Book of the Week: Horton Hears a Who

One of the most lovable and caring characters of all Dr. Seuss’ characters, I feel, is Horton the elephant. who signifies kindness and perseverance. Dr. Seuss' message was: despite the differences, we should try to care about one another. This book will allow teachers to discuss how we judge people based on how they look, rather than on their actions. After all, a person is a person no matter how small."
 

My Home - Where DoDDS Sent Me!!

 

Bridge maps:

What better time to work on rhyming than Dr. Seuss week? 

Using a rhyme bridge map can show how words relate to each other. A bridge map is a type of thinking map that will show how two concepts are related. The top word relates to the bottom in the same away across the bridge.

 

My Little bird tale of Places DoDDs sends us to teach!

 

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Dr. Seuss Pinterest board link:

 

 

Fotosketcher program:  This week's tech tool is not an app and it's free. Simply go to fotosketcher.com to download and play with it!  It will turn your photos into art - pen and ink, oil painting....Your friends are gonna think you are so artistically talented!  LOL!  

This week's activities: 

Retelling story map: 
  

 

 

Setting and Characters: 

 

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Art Activities:

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We hope you have a fun week celebrating Reading Across America!

My Corner of the World

While attending the I Teach K Conference in Vegas, I was asked numerous times how I came to live and teach in Germany. Well to make a long story short (ha!) – my husband and I were back packing in Europe in the early 80’s (yeah I’m old) and were sitting on a bench in Genoa, Italy waiting for the overnight train to Rome. Much to our surprise – two high school girls came up to us and asked if we were Americans and would we mind sharing an overnight sleeping compartment on the train. (We were impressed with their maturity and their conscious effort to be safe!) In our discussion we learned that the girls had been backpacking throughout Europe as a graduation gift from their parents. We did learn, they were American students who had lived in Europe all their lives. Their parents were civilian employees for an American school district in Germany.

When we got back, we decided to apply thinking neh it’s not gonna happen. Well it’s history now and we have been in the same country (not necessarily the same schools) for almost 25 years! That’s a long time considering our intention was to come over for two years! Here’s the link to the schools’ headquarters if you are interested in learning more about DoDDS/DoDEA.

 

 

Being that I’ve lived here so long I’m not sure what would be of interest to blog about! Perhaps my likes and dislikes (like my love/hate relationship with my German washer and dryer)? Life in a different culture? Teaching? Food? Language barriers? Medical support? Things I miss? Things I don't miss?

Feel free to email me questions about what it’s like to live in a foreign country or simply leave your questions in the comment section.

On Another note, don’t forget to follow me on bloglovin, google+ …. for a chance to win a Whisper Phone! I’ll be selecting a winner on Tueday Aug. 13!

 

Buzzing out!