Piano Proficiency Videos

C Major Scale


Chords for C Major


F Major Scale




Chords for F Major


G Major


G Major Chords


A Minor Chords


When The Saints Go Marching In


On Top Of Old Smokey


Greensleeves

Piano Proficiency Video

Digging for Dinosaurs

Yesterday at school during recess the kids found a large mound of dirt that was from the construction of their new playground. One of the first graders (the grade that I would prefer to teach) had checked out a book about dinosaurs earlier that day and decided to look for dinosaur fossils. They found some dinosaur footprints (dog footprints) and were SO excited about it. They continued excavating for the rest of recess, not once choosing to play on the playground.
This experience taught me that children have fun while learning on their own. Instead of playing on the playground, the students on their own got out their book and dug for fossils with no instruction for me. Their imagination led them to inquire about the dirt and fossils and they had a great time doing it. This experience shows how teaching by inquiry is a great way to teach elementary students because their imagination offers so much. While inquiring, students can have fun and come up with more findings than may have come from a typical lesson plan. They do not get bored or finish early because the possibilities are endless.

Teacher Journal

From now on my blog is going to be a teacher journal. I am going to record specific instances that occur in my job as an after school facilitator at Cherry Tree Elementary.

Emerging Technology 3: Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.The website's name stems from the colloquial name of a book given to incoming students at Zuckerberg's high school, Phillips Exeter Academy. The book shows the faces and names of the school's students and faculty. Facebook currently has more than 250 million active users worldwide.
Facebook is very user friendly but I found this helpful tutorial on it in case you have never used it before.



Facebook allows its users to upload pictures of its users and albums of pictures. This is the main reason I like to get on Facebook, to look at all of the pictures that people upload. Here is another very helpful video that shows you step by step how to upload pictures and albums to Facebook.



I think that Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with current and old friends and it is also a great way to meet new friends. Social networking is very popular now and Facebook, in my opinion, is one of the top social networking sites.
Facebook is a safe site because you can manage your profile so that only people you add as friends can view your profile. You can also edit your settings so that if you don't want certain people to be able to find you on Facebook you can block them.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with my friends. It is really fun to be able to search an old aquaitance's name and find them on Facebook.
If you haven't already, check out Facebook and create your own profile!