Welcome students and parents to Mr.Parks classroom and blog! As the 2015 school year approaches the excitement to meet all the students and parents grows. I look forward to meeting and working with every one of you this year.

To start, Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelors degree in Integrated Language Arts. I am excited to announce that I am a first year teacher and you are my first class ever. I have three furry children that I adore, and a loving husband to put up with me. I enjoy reading, scrap booking in my spare time, and traveling any chance I get.

This blog was created in order to stay in touch better with my students and their parents. I feel that communication is important to maintain a teacher/ student or teacher/parent relationship. I will post daily to this blog in hopes that others will do the same. This blog is intended to keep students organized and parents involved on what their child is studying in school. I intend to post notes and topics that we have discussed in class for the day, as well as homework, in case a student is absent or forgot their notes/assignments at school. I will post these because this will ensure success for our students and will help students not fall behind on class work. Along with assignments and homework, I will post links to websites that provide games or additional information that may help a student succeed.

After notes and assignments have been posted to the blog, there will be an opportunity to comment on the post. Under the post will be a link that says "comment." Please feel free to ask any questions that you see fit, but do try to keep the questions directed towards the work you are commenting on. If a homework assignment does not make sense or you are having trouble on a homework assignment or project just leave me a comment and let me know and I will comment back on that same post with a solution. If there needs to be a private discussion between teacher and parent, my email address will be provided on the right side of the page. Please feel free to email me at anytime and I will respond as soon as I can.

Thank you parents and students for taking the time to look over this post and become familiar with how this blog will work. I look forward to seeing all your happy faces in class Monday morning!

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