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Hi, my name is Jeff Russell and I would like to teach 3rd or 4th grade after graduating from UWG in the Spring of 2011. I was inspired by the great elementary school teachers I had many years ago. The best teachers are able to relate to their students, even the youngest ones, as individuals. Through this we can reach our students in dimensions we never thought possible. It was in fourth grade that my teacher, Mrs. Watson, introduced me to C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”. Every afternoon, after we had finished our school work, she would pull out this book and read to us. I recall sitting fixated each day, my mind picturing all the words she was reading from that great story. I think all the students in class looked forward to those afternoons when we could find out what happened in “the next chapter”. I remember the rest of us wanting to read more good books after that, even getting our parents to go out and buy trilogies and novels. It opened up another world to me and it was about that time that I first thought about becoming a teacher. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, Mrs. Watson was getting us interested in books, in reading, and in using our imaginations. Now having come full circle, the learning continues. It finally accomplishes itself when, years later, when much has been forgotten and changed, when the world is a very different place, that the child returns as a man with the same book of stories and an infinite span of time to read them.
 * Welcome!**

My Georgia performance standards can be found at:

[|3rd Grade GPS] [|4th Grade GPS]

The purpose of this wiki is to find //new// and **exciting** ways of connecting kids to technology in the 3rd and 4th grade classroom. Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think!

"I realized that you may have outgrown the use for these stories. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it off, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis." (dedication page from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe")