Monday, August 26, 2013

Hello & Welcome!

This blog is a long time coming... More on that but I suppose I should introduce myself! Hello there and thanks for taking time out of your crazy busy day to read, especially those of you that are so intrigued you put your work day on hold just to read what I felt like sharing today :) I'm Karissa to my friends and Ms. Willhite (or Ms. Dub) to my students. I teach 7th and 8th grade history in Seattle at an amazing school that serves an exceptional diverse student population.  I absolutely LOVE my job, like most teacher's, duh... Nature of the job haha. Anyway... In addition to teaching, I'm an avid reader, while I do enjoy my Hemingway, I love some good (and by good I mean totally predictable and trashy) chic lit ie. 50 Shades of Grey.  I love to cook, paint, anything creative, changing up my classroom decor, hiking, sports in general and am a HUGE Seahawks fan!

Enough about me, I'm sure y'all will get to know me more than you care to as I keep writing.  Like I said this blog is long time coming, I've been planning on writing a teaching blog for the past 3 years (since I started teaching), but teaching is a crazy, hectic, chaotic and amazing profession in which my to-do list seems to perpetually grow no matter how many items I cross off and I just couldn't seem to find time to start one.  Now that I have a few years of teaching under my belt, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on the start of the year, as good as you can anyway, and decided now is the time!

 I've found there is a plethora of elementary blogs, don't get wrong I love them, read way too many of them and sometimes find ways to make their fun holiday art projects middle school relevant and appropriate, but there is a serious of shortage of Secondary blogs.  Of the Middle School or High School teacher blogs I've found, most of them are a little dry, great information, I'm sure they are fabulous teachers but still a little dry.  Therefore I decided it was my duty to write an (hopefully) entertaining blog about teaching Middle School.  Well, now it's time for me to do the homework assigned by my principal for staff training this week, school in Seattle doesn't start until after Labor Day, stay tuned for more and a classroom tour soon :)  

Karissa

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