30 Awesome Facts Y'all Should Likely Know Most Ms. Hagan

Inspired past times John Mahlstedt in addition to his My Favorites presentation at #TMC14, I made a slideshow of "30 Awesome Facts You Should Probably Know About Ms. Hagan" for the get-go hateful solar daytime of school.

I nonetheless demand to weblog well-nigh the get-go hateful solar daytime of school, but that's a lot harder than only talking well-nigh myself.  So, I thought you lot mightiness desire to larn these xxx awesome facts well-nigh me, too.

So, hither nosotros go.  Hold on to your hats!  It's going to live an exciting ride that is chock total of random childhood photographs of yours truly.  

For a lot of my students, I may live the get-go vegetarian they receive got ever met.  

 Vegetarianism was never a witting choice.  It only sort of happened to me.  My dad's menage unit of measurement is vegetarian for religious reasons, but my dad isn't.  My mom's menage unit of measurement eats meat.  When she was inward her mid-twenties, she got sick from eating a bad hamburger in addition to vowed to never swallow meat again.  That was earlier I was born.  So, when my sis in addition to I came along, nosotros didn't swallow meat either.  My parents made it clear to me growing upward that I could select to swallow meat at anytime, but it honestly terrifies me.  There's thence many rules in addition to you lot receive got to grip it properly or you lot could die.

All year, my kids volition quiz me on whether or non I tin john swallow certainly items.    I create swallow eggs in addition to dairy products.  Just no meat or seafood.

Students ever seem to desire to know how onetime I am.  This is likely due to the fact that I expect similar I'm nonetheless inward high school.  And, I thought it would live best to only denote my human relationship condition on the get-go hateful solar daytime of school.    

I can't believe I'm already starting my tertiary yr inward Drumright!  I ever accept a trivial fourth dimension to explicate where I'm from since I'm non from Drumright.  I didn't fifty-fifty know where Drumright was when I got the telephone band to interview here.  I lay stars on the map where I alive forthwith in addition to where I grew up.  It's an hr in addition to 15 infinitesimal drive betwixt the ii towns.  #TMC14 people volition recognize Jenks on the map!  

I speak well-nigh my sis a lot inward class, thence I wanted to innovate her hateful solar daytime one.  

And, here's a random fact well-nigh me that you lot mightiness non know.  

I gauge I should explicate this one.  Whenever I'm driving downwardly the road, if I encounter a tractor, I experience compelled to attempt to gauge the create in addition to model lay out of the tractor in addition to thence verify the results equally I top it.  Does that create me officially weird?  I come upward past times it naturally.  Growing up, my dad would betoken at tractors out the window in addition to enquire my sis in addition to me what create they were.  

My menage unit of measurement runs a tractor salvage/component remanufacturing facility/machine shop.  That agency they construct engines, transmissions, axles, terminal drives, shuttles, in addition to more.  My parents started taking me to go amongst them every unmarried hateful solar daytime from the fourth dimension I was a couplet of months old.  I grew upward around tractors.  My childhood pictures receive got backdrops of tractor engines in addition to backhoe buckets.  In high school, I started working for my parents full-time during the summer.  I answered the phones, handled accounts payable in addition to accounts receivable, built the companionship website, arranged the shipping of our engines across the country, in addition to ran errands.  I continued working for them all through college.  My parents offered to give me a labor next graduation, but my passion isn't inward backhoes, loaders, in addition to dozers.  It's inward teaching.    

I took for granted my get-go yr of pedagogy that students knew that all world schoolhouse teachers are required to receive got a college degree.  I was able to attend TU on a full-ride scholarship for beingness a National Merit Scholar.  I promise that sharing the fact that I went to college on scholarship volition assist encourage my students to apply for to a greater extent than scholarships!  

Then, I did something super scary.  Something I've never actually done before.  I told my students well-nigh my blog.  Am I insane?  A few students had already flora it.  I don't write anything that I'm ashamed of here.  So, I don't recollect it should live a problem.  If I don't desire a pupil to read it, I likely shouldn't live writing it.  

Like my warning?  Anything you lot say or create inward my classroom may live posted on the Internet.  This year, I receive got 41 students who I receive got taught previously.  After hearing this announcement, many of them wanted to know if at that spot was something well-nigh them on my blog.  

They were AMAZED that at that spot are that may people out at that spot inward the Earth who would read a math instructor blog.  Then, I rubbed the fact that I receive got to a greater extent than twitter followers than them inward their faces.  :)  This drives them INSANE.  

I showed them this moving painting from Twitter Math Camp of our INB party.  They wanted to know why nosotros didn't receive got chairs at the conference... 

This is a query I've been asked several times past times students.  When did you lot create upward one's heed to go a teacher?  When I was around 8, somebody asked me what I wanted to live when I grew up.  My half-sister wanted to live a instructor at the time, thence I copied her in addition to announced that I wanted to live a teacher.  Unlike most kids, I never changed my mind.  Though, at that spot was a brusk stint inward the seventh grade where I toyed amongst the thought of becoming a journalist.  But, that was exclusively because I made a mild shell on the journalism teacher.  I didn't create upward one's heed what grade level/subject I wanted to learn until I was a junior inward high school.  One day, I was looking upward something to assist me inward my trig class, in addition to I ended upward on Math Teacher Mambo's blog.  I loved it.  Bookmarked it.  Told my instructor well-nigh it.  Came dorsum in addition to read every unmarried weblog post service she had written.  Pretty soon, I started going through the comments to abide by other math instructor blogs to read.  I've been obsessed for a while!  The #MTBoS in addition to I receive got long been friends!  

Another mutual query is if I receive got whatever pets.  I recollect the pictures speak for themselves on this one.  

I adore puzzles!  

And, if a pupil wants to conduct me chocolate or leftovers from the nutrient prep in addition to nutrition class, I volition non complain!  

Of course, I had to tell them well-nigh my travels.  

And, this is the betoken where non-math people likely start thinking I'm actually weird.  I telephone band this foreshadowing.  :)  

I acquire to go to schoolhouse on my birthday for the 2d yr inward a row!  Woot!  My birthday almost ever falls on Thanksgiving Break.  So, this is a particular occasion indeed!  Last year, I ended upward amongst ii birthday cakes in addition to a birthday cupcake from my students.  I blogged well-nigh the experience here.

 Since 1 of my students educated me lastly yr well-nigh golden birthdays, I decided I should educate my students.  Your golden birthday is when your historic catamenia matches the hateful solar daytime you lot were born on.  My birthday is Nov 25th, thence my golden birthday volition live my 25th birthday.  #CannotWait

I also used this equally a endangerment to innovate my students to the concept of Fri Letters which I am stealing from Rebecka Peterson.

I can't assist but advert the electrical current competitor going on betwixt my sis in addition to myself.  We're competing to encounter who tin john read the most books during 2014.  I'll allow the epitome speak for itself.  Let's only say the score is non pretty correct now.  I demand to a greater extent than time!  

Students also desire to know what type of individual you lot were inward high school.  I went to a much bigger high schoolhouse than the schoolhouse I currently learn in, thence nosotros had the alternative of taking Academic Team (Quiz Bowl) equally a shape inward lieu of athletics.  Academic squad was my thing.  I wasn't inward band.  I didn't play sports.  My sis in addition to I both competed from seventh grade through our senior years of high school.  My senior year, I was named to the All-State team.  

I also tell students from Day 1 that I am super-involved inward my church.  It's a tiny province church, thence I habiliment a lot of dissimilar hats.  Pianist.  Sunday schoolhouse teacher.  Vacation Bible School director.  Church campsite sponsor.  Children's church building teacher.  This year, my 14th yr to go to camp, I climbed upward forty feet inward the air within the "fish net."  I made them accept my moving painting climbing thence I could bear witness to my students that I did it!  

Students normally figure this 1 out pretty quickly.  I type unnaturally fast.  When I started the eighth grade, I was likely the world's slowest typist.  But, I refused to expect at my fingers when I took typing, in addition to I piece of cake got faster in addition to faster in addition to faster until I was typing faster than anyone else inward the school.  I've slowed downwardly a chip because I'm out of practice.  But, I took a quiz the other hateful solar daytime in addition to typed 103 words inward a minute.  That's non likewise shabby.  My students say that it sounds similar I'm shooting bullets out of my fingertips when I type.  Apparently, that tin john live a trivial distracting during a quiz or test....  It is 1 of the most useful things I ever learned to do, though.

After riding world shipping for the get-go fourth dimension inward my life this summertime inward Denver, I started to recollect well-nigh all the things I receive got nonetheless yet to do.  I've never flown.  #TMC15 is going to live inward LA though.  And, that's a pretty long drive.  I may only receive got to acquire over my fearfulness of flying!  Though, driving would allow me to add together several states to my listing of states visited...  I haven't been on a cruise either.  And, I'd beloved to move past times train.  I've rode the develop at Silver Dollar City in addition to Dry Gulch USA, but I don't count those.  I desire to ride a develop that goes somewhere!  

I've never quite understood why students desire to know what sort of auto I drive.  First, I told them that my driving exam grade was the worst exam score of my life.  But, I receive got never been pulled over or wrecked, thence I can't live that terrible of a driver.  I included pictures (from Google Images) of my get-go auto in addition to my electrical current car.  I actually promise they DON'T telephone commutation my car!  

I've never broken a bone.  But, my sis has.  And, manifestly both times were my fault.  The get-go fourth dimension she was 3.  We were both on the teeter totter.  She vicious off.  I recollect she should receive got been belongings on better.  She claims it was my mistake though.  Debatable.  The 2d fourth dimension she was five.  I convinced her that it would live cooler if nosotros sat on the dorsum of the couch to color inward our coloring books.  It's non my mistake that she doesn't receive got the best residual inward the world.

I similar to live honest amongst my students that at that spot are things I am non practiced at.  Swimming would autumn nether that category.  I likely won't drown.  But, you lot won't abide by me swimming laps.  I only can't create it.  Or, I should say, I haven't lay inward the endeavour to larn how to properly breathe in addition to swim at the same time.  

Can you lot figure out which 1 I am inward the picture?  This is my fourth grade shape on Land Run Day.  I used to assume that everyone knew well-nigh the Land Run.  But, manifestly that's something that people exterior of Oklahoma don't necessarily larn about.  

I'm on the far correct inward the bluish clothes amongst the white apron.  Want to know what my prize was for winning my class' clothes upward contest?  I was deemed a Sooner inward the Land Run.  I had to attempt to sneak past times the guy amongst the gun in addition to claim my Earth earlier the shot was fired to start the Earth run.  Do you lot know what happens when you lot create that?  People start chasing you, grab you, in addition to throw you lot inward jail.  If you lot know me at all, you lot know that I am NOT a dominion breaker.  If I'm non supposed to go earlier a certainly time, I don't go earlier that time.  While I was hanging out inward jail, everybody else got to claim their Earth first.  I recollect I'm nonetheless traumatized past times that experience.

What sports did you lot play inward high schoolhouse Ms. Hagan?

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Might was good tell you lot on Day Uno that I did non play whatever sports inward high school.

I did serve a volleyball over the internet this summertime at church building camp.  This was something that I was never able to create when nosotros played volleyball inward PE.  Well, to live honest, I was the daughter who ran in addition to screamed anytime the volleyball came close me.  I was the daughter that you lot did non desire on your team.

We'll conveniently ignore the nineteen or thence times that my serve did non go over the net, though, in addition to focus on the 1 fourth dimension it did!

I desire to develop in addition to run a 5K.  I'm non a runner.  So, I figured that at that spot was no improve motivation than telling my students well-nigh my conception to run a 5K.  I did cease upward running the get-go hateful solar daytime of school, thence I gauge that it did help.  

Love my lastly slide.  I am super excited well-nigh this schoolhouse year.  Disclaimer: I'm almost equally excited for this yr equally I am for my novel pencil sharpener!  You mightiness receive got seen the moving painting of it inward my classroom pics for this year.  

It's super awesome, in addition to it's from Classroom Friendly Supplies.  It gives you lot such a practiced pencil sharpening experience that I *had* to accept a selfie amongst the get-go pencil I sharpened using it.  That's completely natural, right?  

I've got plans to write a total review.  Look for it inward the adjacent couplet of days.  Until then, if you lot can't hold off to gild your novel best friend, here's a discount code or 5% off a pencil sharpener.  It expires Nov 1st, thence human action fast!  

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So, at that spot you lot receive got it.  30 awesome facts that you lot should likely know well-nigh yours truly.  I promise you lot learned something!    

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