IQ test

So, I was wandering around the internet today and I decided to take an IQ test. My score was 129, which doesn't make me a genius (I object, I am totally a genius!), but it does put me plenty of points above average. In fact, I was looking and thinking to myself that I am above the average PhD graduate. Well, then school should be really easy for me, right? If only I wasn't wasting all my time taking online IQ tests...

So, here's a paper I wrote, if you want to read it.

Poverty in the Classroom
By Katie May Smith
Written August 2008
Published here on Google Blogger September 15, 2008

“Children are resilient, and a sensitive teacher can ameliorate the affects of poverty,” ~Shirley Aamidor, Ph.D. Professor of Education IU Kokomo

Poverty is an often overlooked, and very serious problem, and one that is quite personal to me, as I grew up well below the poverty line. According to the Institute for Research on Poverty, “In 2003, 12.9 million children in the U.S. under the age of 18, or more than one in six children, were living in poverty (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004).” Poverty is never a child’s fault or responsibility, and yet it rests on their shoulders like the weight of the world. Children carry their poverty into every situation in their lives, including, and perhaps especially to the classroom.

Many poor students are not as well prepared to learn as their classmates from more stable homes, and for a number of reasons. Issues like residential mobility and often changing schools, and poor nutrition can severely affect a child’s education. Furthermore, parents struggling to make ends meet are less likely to afford educational supplies that children need, from art supplies, to instruments, to the most basic necessities like clothes, pencils and paper, and are likely too distracted by the rigors of their lifestyle to have enough time or energy to actively engage in their children’s education. As a result of these factors, impoverished children can suffer socially and academically (Pellino, 2007).

Poverty reaches into the hearts of its children, and causes them to feel less valuable than their classmates. That very attitude can lead students to strive less fervently than they should to achieve in the classroom despite the obstacles they face (Pellino, 2007). The attitudes of teachers, administrators, other students and community members can have a significant impact on a student’s confidence in the classroom. With that power, there comes a responsibility to use that impact to the benefit all of our students, and especially the less fortunate, in any way that we reasonably can.

For the Rest of this paper, with full bibliography, see this Google Document

Thanks,
Katie May

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Childhood Rhymes

Six, Eight, Nine,
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed Tobacco
On the Street Car Line

The Line Broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven
In a Little Row Boat

Quack Quack!

Recently I was thinking of that rhyme that I learned as Bobo- Shi Otten Totten. But the site that I found listing it had the words all wrong. They had it as Bobo Ski Wotten Totten.

Bobo Shi Otten Totten
Uh-uh, I ain't no fool!
Itty bitty Otten Totten
Bobo Shi Otten Totten
Bobo Shi Otten Totten
Boom!

But they had

Bo-bo ski watten totten,
Ah-ah-ah, boom boom boom
Itty bitty wotten totten
Bo bo ski watten tatten
Bo bo ski wotten tatten-BOOM. (Thanks to Azlyn)

Which is correct? Does it matter? Anyhow.
So, I thought I would blog about it!! Ha-ha.

"I like your verbs that are things. I think I'm gonna sandwich after I sofa here for a bit."

Yeah, that's from some commercial, I think it's funny.

Well, boring post, this is goodbye.
K

So, this is what is going on

So, here I am at work. I have signed up for my fall classes, which will be Child Development, Comparative Religion, and Anatomy and Physiology. It is going to be a lot of work, but hopefully also a lot of fun.
E and I just got an apartment together, yay, it is so cute, and I can't wait to get it all decorated up. It's going to be so much fun!
Ok, well I have to go, but stay tuned, I have a few stories to share with you that I wrote for creative writing.
Kaytmay

Some Bullshit!!

Isn't this some bullshit? Well, there is a petition going around to tell Fox that we don't appreciate their slander.
You can sign it here.

Well, you found me

Well, it looks like you found my blog. I haven't been up to too much lately. I'm in the throes of summer learning, I am taking Creative Writing and Management of the Classroom. Some of the assignments for the latter pose an issue being summertime, and also being that I don't have any small children readily available to interview about some of the subjects, but overall, it is a worthwhile experience.
Creative writing has been really fun. It turns out, though, that I am not so good with the punctuation on dialog. I've always hated writing dialog! It has been a bit easier with a bit of instruction, though.
Also, my Nana just sent me the instructions on how to play Screw Your Neighbor. That is a really fun card game, and I'm going to post the instructions here so that I can always find them when I need them, and maybe you all can find them too. Well, I should get some work done.
Tchao.