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The Bin

Every teacher and every person for that matter has a bin or tool box of skills, experiences, thoughts, feeling, and so much more. As people we apply these pieces of ourselves to our professions, relationships, and daily lives.



I am a teacher, a wife, a traveler, a thinker. The neat thing about all of that is that my students, my kiddos each year get to learn and benefit in life experience from what I bring to the table. My bin of skills.



Some days I scrape the bottom of the bin for ideas and inspiration. Other days I dip into my alphabin, mathbin, and many others for neat things to dust off and try again with a new group of children. This blog serves as a log of all these ideas swirling around. It is my nod to the 21st century, putting away the binders of black-line masters and joining the digital age.



This is for the love of learning, to support teachers and parents in their journey, and to keep myself sanely organised.

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