Jenniesings2
Subscriber since: November 2012
Location:
Corbin,
KY
About Me
Education Credentials:
*Bachelor of Science Degree-Cumberland College-1996.
Certification in K-4/5-6 Elementary Education and K-8 Music Endorsement
*Master of Arts Degree School Counseling - Eastern Kentucky University-2002.
Other information:
*12 hrs. additional studies in History Education - University of Kentucky
*Selected as an American Legacies Fellow 2002
*Writing Cluster Leader 2003-2004.
*Taught 4 years of Elementary Music 1997-2001
*Taught 5th Grade Choir 2009-2010
*Taught 3 years of 4th grade 2001-2004
*Top five finalist for Kentucky History Teacher of the Year 2007
*Region 13 Outstanding Civic Educator 2011
*Kentucky Colonel
*Kentucky Geographic Alliance Teacher Consultant
*Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
*Taught 6 years in 5th grade
*Beginning third year as a 6th grade teacher
*Beginning 16th year of teaching
*Bachelor of Science Degree-Cumberland College-1996.
Certification in K-4/5-6 Elementary Education and K-8 Music Endorsement
*Master of Arts Degree School Counseling - Eastern Kentucky University-2002.
Other information:
*12 hrs. additional studies in History Education - University of Kentucky
*Selected as an American Legacies Fellow 2002
*Writing Cluster Leader 2003-2004.
*Taught 4 years of Elementary Music 1997-2001
*Taught 5th Grade Choir 2009-2010
*Taught 3 years of 4th grade 2001-2004
*Top five finalist for Kentucky History Teacher of the Year 2007
*Region 13 Outstanding Civic Educator 2011
*Kentucky Colonel
*Kentucky Geographic Alliance Teacher Consultant
*Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
*Taught 6 years in 5th grade
*Beginning third year as a 6th grade teacher
*Beginning 16th year of teaching
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Favorite Word:
graceThe word grace is beautiful because it implies a mind set that I would like to live by.
Favorite Quote:
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
Favorite Topics:
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
How to write:
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 15 Comments
Usage:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1 Comment
Vocabulary:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1 Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Writers:
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 3 Comments
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