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= Welcome to Miss Torkelson's Wiki!! =

Welcome to my classroom Wiki! There is a lot of important and useful information on this site. I will use this to keep partents as well as the studetns informed on what is happening in the classroom. I will be posting a class calendar with up coming events, due dates, and what we are studing and working on in class. I will also be posting the monthly newsletters, and have the homeowrk assingments available incase someone is sick, or missed an assingment.

"Funds of knowledge is one way to help you connect with your child and with their family" taken from []

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Dr. Hiam Ginott once said, “I have come to a frightening conclusion that, I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable o joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliarte or humor, hurt, or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.”

from - Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)