100 Views!

Wow!  My blog is only nine days old and I have ONE HUNDRED VIEWS! I cannot express how truly excited and thankful I am that there are people who are taking the time to view my blog! Thank you all so much!

I have been accepted into the America Reads program through work study at school.  I work in a first grade classroom on Thursday mornings from 8:30 to 11:00.  I work with students on spelling, vocabulary, reading skills, and other tasks. It is so exciting to be able to work with students weekly! I am also in education classes this semester so it is very exciting to be making lesson plans and classroom setups for homework! Right now I am working on a Multicultural Art lesson for my Elementary Art Education Class.  I have many ideas of what projects to do I just need to narrow down from my choices.

I also discovered the Voki website and I created my first Voki today! You can see it on the right hand side of my blog.

One again thank you all so much for taking the time to view my blog!

Moving Day...

Well today is the day that I move from one dorm room to another.  As I have been moving all of my things I have realized just how much stuff I have.  In the process of moving I have been overwhelmed with feelings of fatigue, stress, and most importantly thankfulness.

I saw a picture I have taped to my lap top of children in Sierra Leone as I was bringing in a basket and I said to myself, "Wow Hanna, look at all of your material things... and just remember how grateful you are to have them."  I am still in awe of all the gifts I have received at graduation, my birthday, Christmas.... all of these things I cherish so much because of who gave them to me and what they mean.... and yet they are just things.

I am so thankful for the life my parents have been able to provide for me and the environment I have been able to grow up in.  I am grateful for my friends and my education, my professors as well as many other opportunities and people I have in my life.

Dr. Seuss

I have been brainstorming possible ways to relate my trip and experience in Africa to a lesson in an elementary classroom.  And as some of you could guess from the title of my blog, it has to do with Dr. Seuss! I have been reading other blogs related to the orphanage that we will be working with and the idea just hit me! Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! would be a PERFECT way to make the connection.  I read the book a few times after I came up with the idea, and I decided it was too good of a chance to pass up! 

Here is a little summary of the book (in case you haven't read it or seen the movie!) that I wrote up for a quick glance at the connection:


Poor Horton was thought to be a grave fool,
But he fought & fought to save Who's from a pool.
Alas the Who's spec had been taken away,
...It was lost in some clovers and made Horton feel gray.
Then on he searched hour by hour
He saved them at last on the 3 millionth flower!

Here is a challenge to all of you: Be like Horton! Believe in a change even if those around you don't! And always remember, “a person's a person no matter how small.”

The Beginning

Hello! 

My name is Hanna and I am an Elementary Education major.  As you will see in this blog I am very excited to go through college and earn my degree and then have a classroom of my own!  

I suppose my journey began at the beginning on October 16, 1991 when I was born, but my blog will start now.  I am in my second semester of college and I have had the privilege of getting to know one of my professors quite well at school.  Through her I have the opportunity to go to Sierra Leone, Africa this coming May to do mission work at an orphanage called The Covering.  My hope is that my experience in Africa will be a unique and successful teaching tool in my future classroom.  

Below I have a video that I created about the orphans in Sierra Leone.  It is geared towards children and I hope that it is a way to inspire them to help others.