https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy Made with a quick smile en-us 2016-09-08 04:50:50 UTC 2024-12-17 09:51:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122324949 My name is Taylor Paluczak, and I am a junior at the University of Missouri majoring in Elementary Education, and minoring in Human Development & Family Studies and Multicultural Studies. ]]> 2016-09-08 04:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122324949 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122325480 First grade was when I really started to fall in love with books. I would read all the time no matter if we were in the car, in the grocery store, out to lunch, at my Grandma's, and even sometimes during the summer, I would try to read books on a raft in my Grandma's pool. That idea never really turned out so well. We started reading chapter books with plots that really drew me in, and I was at the age where I loved the challenge of them. ]]> 2016-09-08 04:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122325480 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122325723 This is me and a few of my friends on our First Communion in second grade. The one on the far left was actually my roommate here at Mizzou my freshman year, but that's me second from the right. I'm not sure why I remember this but my Grandma Paluczak gave me a set of Nancy Drew books, a Bible, and my own Saints book with a bunch of names and stories of saints in honor of the sacrament I had just received. I thought this was like the coolest gift ever, but all my friends did not agree!]]> 2016-09-08 05:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122325723 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326093 This was one of my favorite chapter book series growing up. My Kindergarten teacher read us these once everyday, and our goal was to read as many of them as possible. I thought Junie B. Jones was so funny and I loved the way my teacher, Ms. Gallagher, read to us!]]> 2016-09-08 05:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326093 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326268 Like I mentioned in my "Second Grade" post, one of my favorite gifts ever was a boxed set of these books from my Grandma Paluczak! The Nancy Drew series is what really sparked my imagination and love for mysteries.]]> 2016-09-08 05:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326268 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326696 At my grade school, every year the 6th graders participated in a Reading Auction. Each page you read outside of the classroom counted for a point, and your parents and teachers had to sign off to verify what you read. I had a bit of a competitive edge and read over 21,000 pages that school year and won the Auction. I ended up winning an Adidas sweatsuit outfit, Cardinals tickets, and a bunch of other random stuff. It was one of my proudest moments!]]> 2016-09-08 05:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122326696 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327046 This past summer, after hearing about the sale of Hugh Hefner's mansion, I became really intrigued by the Playboy empire and how it has taken a pretty big fall since my generation's childhood. I checked out Holly Madison's book Down the Rabbit Hole from the library to learn more. I read it on the way to our family vacation in Gulf Shores, AL and I couldn't believe half of the stuff Playboy got away with. They basically owned all rights to the girls that worked for the brand, and they had 9 p.m. curfews every night and were only allowed to leave the mansion with permission. They also weren't allowed to go home to see their family for longer than 1 day. It was almost like a scary trap. ]]> 2016-09-08 05:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327046 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327532 I am a Summer School TA in the Parkway School District and this past summer I was placed in a Jumpstart to Kindergarten classroom at Hanna Woods Elementary. We spent a week studying Mo Willems, and the Knuffle Bunny books were my favorites. I've never laughed so much at children's books! I definitely want to incorporate Mo Willems' work into my future classroom.]]> 2016-09-08 05:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327532 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327881 For the past 2 years, I have had Klaye as my buddy in the Mizzou College Mentors for Kids program. Klaye is a 4th grader at Benton, and she comes to campus every Tuesday for a few hours to do activities. We always have a "Book of the Week" that we read to them and we also learn about engineering, firefighting, sign language, art, nutrition, and other things that they could eventually pursue a career in. ]]> 2016-09-08 05:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122327881 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122328230 I grew up in a big hockey family and actually played until 6th grade. This is my dad, and hockey is something we bond over a lot. His brother actually played college hockey at Minnesota State with David Backes (miss him already) in the early 2000's and I vividly remember the long drives and hockey trips to go watch their team play. Last Father's Day, I got my dad a book called 100 Things Blues Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jeremy Rutherford. Every time I come home, I always see it laying on his night stand from the nights he spends reading it!]]> 2016-09-08 05:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122328230 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122328553 Freshman year I was a writer for the student run online and in print newspaper called The Odyssey. I published articles online every week and my most popular article was called "The Ultimate College School Supply List" has received over 173,000 shares as of today! If you search my name and The Odyssey on Google, it will bring up all of my articles from the year I wrote for them!]]> 2016-09-08 05:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122328553 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329239 My senior year I was fortunate enough to be invited on the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time, I was my school's Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, so I was entered into some writing contests. I won an Honorable Mention at the convention for my sports writing, and I was so shocked because I had never been judged on my writing before. It was a really awesome experience having my work looked at by professionals in the journalism field and getting to tour the city to see places like Fenway Park and Harvard!]]> 2016-09-08 05:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329239 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329630 My mom said from a very young age, I loved to write. She said, "You were always writing in journals and reading books, and you would make up your own stories and put them together in stapled books made of computer paper." I used to have a Password Journal that had a voice sensor so only I could open it. Still today, I keep journals occasionally like when I go on trips to places I don't normally go and during the summer.]]> 2016-09-08 05:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329630 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329898 In 7th grade, my computer class had an assignment where we had to write a paper on our "perfect" world. My paper was titled "Taylortopia." I still remember typing it up on the old teal Mac computers. The one thing I remember from it was that everyone was born with huge heads because they were born with everything they ever needed to know, so they didn't even have to go to school. Ironic that I'm becoming a teacher now, isn't it? :)]]> 2016-09-08 05:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122329898 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330175 I loved when my mom would read to me at night. I always remember that she would read books to me after tucking me into bed, and as I got older, we would lay together and read books for about a half hour together every night. Before she would leave me to go to sleep after, I always remember her saying, "I love you to the moon and back."]]> 2016-09-08 06:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330175 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330430 My dad seems to have a sense of humor that he just loves to use to pick on people, especially his family. When I talked to him about my past and my developing literacy, he said, "You developed the use of 'no' earlier than most children and you always had an expansive vocabulary, and that would include the good and the bad."]]> 2016-09-08 06:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330430 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330750 The book Love you Forever by Robert Munsch was my absolute favorite book growing up. I would make my parents read it to me so much that by the time I started school, it was so worn out and the binding and pages were all mangled. This is one of the first books I will invest in to have in my future classroom. It has a great message for children also!]]> 2016-09-08 06:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330750 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330988 My family takes an annual trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama every summer because my mom is from Troy, Alabama. It is my favorite week out of the year, and we've stayed in the same 2 condos at the same complex since I can remember. The condos each have a guest book where families can write messages to the condo owners, but my family never wrote anything. I took it into my own hands in July of 2004 to write a message from myself, including the fact that the sun made me "look like I was in a toaster." I found the book last summer and was paging through and came across the two pages from our trip that year. It was a really awesome moment getting to read what I wrote at such a young age about a place I love to visit still to this day. ]]> 2016-09-08 06:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122330988 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122331697 I have family in Poland, so I was always super interested in the Holocaust. In middle school, I would check out a ton of books and biographies about victims of the Holocaust. I read The Diary of Anne Frank and I can honestly say it was one of the most intriguing books I had ever read. I could never imagine the things her family went through, but I am glad her dad went through the trouble of having her diary published for little girls like my middle school self to learn about this dark time in our world's history. ]]> 2016-09-08 06:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122331697 tnpyb5 https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122332085 I always loved checking out the Magic Tree House books from the library, but this one was by far my favorite. I always had a fascination with the Titanic for some odd reason...so odd that I literally asked for the Titanic movie on the double VHS tape set for Christmas in 3rd grade. I still have them! I loved history and reading fictional stories about nonfiction events, and I think that's why I loved this book series so much!]]> 2016-09-08 06:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tnpyb5/w0b1y9w88pcy/wish/122332085