First Time

    Ok, so this is my first blog post ever.  A little bit about myself.  Hmm, well my name is Kelsey and I'm 21 years old.  I am in early childhood education major right now and just started the Teacher Ed. Program at Harding University.  I absolutely love school and so far I am loving all of my classes this semester.
    Alright, now that the introduction is out of the way, let get to the point of this blog.  I created this blog as an assignment for a class.  The class is about teaching writing to early childhood level (Pre-K through 4th grade) students.  On the first day of class, my professor came in and just as I expected her to, she talked to us about the importance of writing for children.  I already knew this, we all know writing is an important thing for children to do, but just like all the other things that are good for our kids (veggies, brushing their teeth, taking a bath), they hate to do it.  How do we get them to enjoy writing?  Well, it is only the second week of class so I haven't gotten that far yet. Haha.. BUT, I have learned that you can't teach anything well that you aren't comfortable with and that you aren't passionate about.  If we want our children to stop thinking of writing as a chore, we should SHOW them how much fun it can be.  The only way to do that is to write ourselves.  If we pound the importance of writing into our students and then give them a prompt or a theme to write about and go sit at our desk and click away on the computer, they aren't going see the importance.  We as teachers need to lead by example, we need to write so that they can see us doing it.  We also need to share our writing with them.  If they see us writing, they are going to want to do it too.  That way we can say "Do as I do" instead of "Do as I say, not as I do."