Jane Hake

Female

Saint Louis, MO

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Teacher
Blog
http://ateachingheart@blogspot..com
Website
http://pages.lindberghschools.ws/education/staff/staff.php?sectiond...
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
ateachingheart
About Me
I love teaching and learning! I have taught for 24 years in both public and private schools. I have spent about 3-5 years in each of the elementary grades from 1st through 8th. I thrive on change and reflection of my educational practices. Currently, I am pursuing a service-learning cross-curricular approach. I have found that my students thrive because learning is more meaningful with this approach. I can reach beyond the classroom by providing "real-life" experiences.

Comment Wall:

  • James Edward Charles Webber

    Welcome!
    Jim

    Feb 3, 2009

  • Eve Heaton

    Jane - I saw your presentation of your service learning project with the cementary and LOVED it. Did you use photostory to put that together? How did you get in on your blog? I think I want to do the same thing with our composting project. That would be a fun way to document our progress from start to "finish".

    Feb 7, 2009

  • Eve Heaton

    Thanks for the comment on my teacher blog.

    The composting project has taken a back seat to finishing up our animal powerpoints. The powerpoints are great but very time consuming. The was a giant experiment to see if it would work and I ran into all sorts of fun problems (students not able to access pictures, computer lab time, microphones won't work on all the computers, etc.). I can totally see why teachers shy away from large projects. Sigh...

    I was going to make a composting "video" of our project from what we asked for in a grant to how we manage it in the clasroom (which isn't well at the moment). My goal is to post it to TeacherTube over spring break. I went to a local (SC) science convention and got the composting idea from a group of fifth grade teachers upstate who have been very helpful and generous with their resouces.

    Feb 14, 2009

  • Eve Heaton

    I like the cross curricular approach you have with the cemetary project. I think my timing was off with the composting (we are about to go into our state mandated writing test so prep is taking over). I figure this is my learning year for all things projects :)

    I do science notebooking. I have a blog about it at www.sciencenotebooking.blogspot.com. Do you notebook?

    Feb 15, 2009

  • Nancy Bosch

    I actually have no idea--I don't friend people and always accept when they friend me. I would guess you could more easily 'find' someone from your friend list. Let me know if there is a better answer. haha! N

    Feb 19, 2009

  • Shakaiba Zakir

    Hi Jane,
    I just saw your salt dough maps .I really loved them .I would like to use them inb my class.
    Regards.
    Shakaiba Zakir

    Feb 27, 2009

  • Eve Heaton

    Jane - Thank you for leaving a post on Nicole's penguin project. She is a transfer student that is terminally shy and hard to bring out of her shell and you could tell that your comment just made her day. Thank you!

    Eve

    Mar 11, 2009

  • Jan Wells

    Hi Jane. Are you still looking for a 4th grade class to blog with? I teach 4th grade in Kansas. Would love to have an opportunity for my kids to interact with others. Let me know what you think.

    Mar 12, 2009

  • Jan Wells

    We are also on Spring Break. The kids will be excited to see that we are making web friends. Enjoy your time off.

    Mar 16, 2009

  • Mary Rodger

    Jane, I had no idea that you could use "my page" like this. I have so much to learn! Thanks for teaching me something new tonight.

    Mar 17, 2009