First Time Blogger!

Hey everyone my name is Rachel and I am a junior at Michigan State University. My major is elementary education with minors in english and history. I am hoping to move out of Michigan once my student teaching is over, and end up somewhere south (Florida, Georgia, one of the Carolinas would be perfect) and be a fifth grade teacher. I zeroed in on fifth grade for many reasons.

Number 1. That was my favorite grade in elementary school.
Number 2. I had my favorite teacher that year..Mrs. Brown, I want to be half the teacher she was for me.
Number 3. The most interesting and facsinating topics in history I learned in the fifth grade... the colonies, the presidents, and development of the United States.

I am a huge history nerd as you may tell... I spend my time watching the history channel and discovery channel. But I also love love love to read. Ever since I was exposed to Nancy Drew (in a very convenient year...fifth grade) I was known for being caught under the covers with a flashlight and a book in the wee hours of the night. I've since evolved to much more mature texts, many in which i tend to call my "murder mystery/thriller" books. I'm fascinated with criminals and the criminal mind and am convinced if i wasnt going to be a teacher, that I would make the perfect FBI profiler or criminal psychologist.

So thats just a little about myself. I hope to become much more efficient and comfortable blogging, having this be my first ever experience with it. I loved TE 348 and learning a more in depth way to read children's literature. I also hope to learn a lot more about diverse children literature (i hate the term multicultural). Hopefully it will be a good semester!!