Design the Life You Love by Ayse Birsel is a fabulous "self-help-ish" book. It offers a creative, interactive approach to helping readers create a life that is worth living. The book is divided into various steps:
1) Warm-up
2) Deconstruct
3) Inspiration
4) Today
5) Tomorrow
6) Design
7) Living
The author's little doodles and creative presentation inspire me to let loose and get into a state of flow while interacting with the text. The stylish, minimalistic layout of the pages and the books division into clear steps serves to prevent readers from feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of "redesigning" their lives.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to reevaluate their current lifestyle and design something he or she can enjoy passionately. This book is a great tool for self-reflection and creation. 4.5/5 stars.
-Mrs. Mundt
P.S. I received this book for reviewing purposes courtesy of Blogging for Books.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015
A Lofty Task: Setting up my 4th Grade Classroom!
I have been out of the blogging world for quite some time now, but I am back and ready to roll!
Update: I will be a 4th grade teacher at an IB PYP school in Minneapolis this school year, and I couldn't be more excited to get started.
Last week, I attended the "Making the PYP Happen" introductory workshop. The PYP (Primary Years Programme) framework is super intense and very inspiring. The PYP has five primary components: knowledge, skills, attitudes, concepts, and action. The goal of the program is to promote international mindedness through inquiry. The training merely scratched the surface of the PYP, and it was still so much! I am eager to apply what I've learned in the classroom and to document it all here on my blog!
I have moved some things into my classroom, but there is so much yet to be done. I want to create a classroom environment that is simple/streamlined yet engaging and invigorating...that allows opportunities for collaboration and exploration...that promotes students to grow into their identity as readers...that students can build upon and make their own. I believe the classroom environment has a HUGE impact on student learning, so I feel I have a lofty task ahead of me!
Another update with photos will come soon!
Mrs. Mundt
Update: I will be a 4th grade teacher at an IB PYP school in Minneapolis this school year, and I couldn't be more excited to get started.
Last week, I attended the "Making the PYP Happen" introductory workshop. The PYP (Primary Years Programme) framework is super intense and very inspiring. The PYP has five primary components: knowledge, skills, attitudes, concepts, and action. The goal of the program is to promote international mindedness through inquiry. The training merely scratched the surface of the PYP, and it was still so much! I am eager to apply what I've learned in the classroom and to document it all here on my blog!
I have moved some things into my classroom, but there is so much yet to be done. I want to create a classroom environment that is simple/streamlined yet engaging and invigorating...that allows opportunities for collaboration and exploration...that promotes students to grow into their identity as readers...that students can build upon and make their own. I believe the classroom environment has a HUGE impact on student learning, so I feel I have a lofty task ahead of me!
Another update with photos will come soon!
Mrs. Mundt
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