Teaching Mrs. Ryan

    A day I thought would never come has happened... I am teaching something other than math!  For 7 years I have taught math to grade levels 2nd on up to 8th and I have absolutely loved every second it.  I will admit it with no problem.. I LOVE MATH!  I have learned one thing about "Life" though, it changes, and it is constantly changing.      I found myself at the end of this school year packing up a home we have lived in as a family since right before my youngest child was born, and moving 2 hours away.  Not a huge difference, but it seems it has been the summer of change for many I know.  My brother moved from his Texas home to Colorado, my Grandmother is moving from the home she loves into a suite she had built onto my Aunt's house as she is turning 90 tomorrow.  My 3rd child graduated high school, child number 2 is about to embark on a travel tour of America in an RV, and child number 1 went and got married!  And of cou...

Our school was selected to participate in Google Expeditions.  How awesome for a small East Texas school to be visited by a tech giant and chosen to participate.  Let's be honest, if you google "Google Expeditions" you will see that they have been all over letting schools test out their new app, but they are all schools in big cities.  We were so lucky to have such an amazing district STEM coordinator that is always looking out for exciting STEM opportunities for our students.  During the expeditions, my students used View Master Virtual Reality viewers with cell phone devices.     I WAS BLOWN AWAY. I was excited, my kids wanted to do everything even though we only had a 20 minute window per class.  I knew I needed to check into this more. December:  I had visited the View Master website and of course checked out how I could get one of these off of Amazon .  And then I just let it drop back into the back of my brain as teachers tend ...