Paul's Retirement Day!

 


January 2, 2009 Retirement Day for Paul. Now what will he be doing! Happy Retirement Hubby!

Beth and Murray at Their Birthday Celebration

 

Out to eat with Family on Thursday January 1, 2009! This was a lot of fun and laughs.
Murray is from Georgia spending time in Chicago for Christmas.
Beth doesn't have a clue (SURPRISE) that we will be celebrating her 50th birthday with family and friends.

Beth's 50th Birthday Party 2009

http://picasaweb.google.com/PaulPam2/BethS50thBirthdayParty2009#


The above link has pictures from Beth's 50th Birthday party!

Photo a Day!

Taking pictures everyday sounds like fun and something I want to do for the new year. It will be challenging but rewarding. Read Dean Shareski's blog to learn more about that the challenge.
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=41893028815&h=gzpKs&u=c6_tS

Happy New Year!

This has been an exciting year with many happy and sad times. My husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in Israel. He retires on January 2, 2009...just days away. My mother, who was 84 years old, passed away this year. This school year is my last at District 130. I will be retiring in June 2009.

Have a safe and Happy New Year Everyone!

The Little Drummer Boy!

This will be the first Christmas without my mother! I would like to dedicate this video to her. This was her favorite Christmas song.

Family Pix

http://picasaweb.google.com/PaulPam2


Above is a link to my family pictures. I use Picasa web albums supplied by google. In my opinion, one of the best email providers is google which is gmail. Google has many resources that are wonderful to use. All my pictures on my blogs are stored at picasa automatically.

I use picasa to share my pictures with family and friends. You can easily download any or all of the pictures I have placed on my account.

ENJOY!
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Easy Graphic Converter

Easy Graphic Converter is a program I use for converting and resizing graphics. Students will be learning how to use this program so they can add images to their blogs. Many times websites take a long time to load because the graphics are large, so we will be reducing the size of our images. In this way, our blogs will load quicker and easier.




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Working on Classblogmeister!

Today the students "logged" in to Classblogmeister and were able to post their first stories, comments, opinions, or concerns on a variety of topics.

Classblogmeister is set on private so if parents are wanting to see what this is all about we will show you at parent/teacher conferences in November.

Students will be using their blogs as diaries; posting articles on a variety of topics.

We will keep you updated.

September

September is here and it is hard to believe that Open House is over! We had quite a turn out of parents and grandparents attending. There was a lot of excitement with students and families all over the room talking and exchanges ideas about the different displays in the classroom.

Classblogmeister will be set up this coming week. I am interested in having all students writing in their blogs. It will be a great journaling experience for them. We will be working on vocabulary, collaboration, and cooperative learning activities.

Looking forward to setting this up and making it happen.