My Family: an online photo collection specifically for my students I encourage fellow teacher leaders to post their original "best practice" resources somewhere on-line for other teachers to discover.
My students hear plenty of stories about my husband, my family, and my pets. Out loud, I try to demonstrate skills of good writing through regular story-telling in class. I provide this page for my students to be able to actually see who all those people are I talk about during classtime.
Family Photos:
Here, my husband (Corbett) and I are waiting for sunrise on top of Mt. Halekala in Maui, Hawaii. This was part of our honeymoon trip in 2005.
After this photo, we rode rented bikes from the very top of the mountain down to the beach and sea level.
The bike ride was fine and fun until the very end. Just three hundred yards from the beach, it suddenly started pouring rain, splashing my whole body with Hawaii's red mud. I cried when I saw how dirty I became in just the last few minutes of the adventure.
My father (John) and I are enjoying a lake ride on his boat in Southern Nevada in this photo. My Dad has always loved water and has owned many different boats. My sisters used to love to go tubing behind boats like this!
Over Spring Break, I often travel to Southern California to visit my Mom. Here my Mom (Cheryl) and I are about to go enjoy the sites and the weather in Solvang, California.
Here is my Dad with his four daughters. I am the oldest child.
One of my sisters is a teacher, one is a hair stylist, and one is becoming a nurse. Can you guess which is which?
Here are two pictures taken the afternoon I got to babysit my neice, Macey. She is such a cutie!
Pet Photos:
The Magnificent Pudge in all his glory
This is Pudge posing for the camera, which he often does. Pudge is the oldest of our dogs.
Ozzy as a Bumblebee
Unlike Pudge, Ozzy never photographs very well. Ozzy's picture at the vet's office looks even worse!
The Tort-Igloo Invader
Hawthorne is our desert tortoise, and Bentley is our dog who sometimes takes over Hawthorne's big plastic home out back.
Tortoise Eggs
A few years back, we hatched some tortoise eggs in an incubator. We still have one of the babies that hatched.
Some Oldies But Goodies:
Mrs. Harrison in first grade!
Here is a Where's Waldo-like challenge for my students.
Can you find me?
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Mrs. Harrison in third grade!
Another Where's Waldo-like challenge for my students.
Can you find me?
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Mrs. Harrison in high school!
Here is a final Where's Waldo-like challenge for my students.
As a senior in high school, we took a huge panoramic photograph of the entire senior class. This is just the portion of that big picture that I could fit over the scanner.
Can you find me in this photo? I'll bet you can't!
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