Chapter 1: About the Marvelous Ms. Cowen
1.Full Name: Jordan Bailey Cowen
2.Favorite Color: PURPLE
3.Favorite Subject: READING DUHHHH
4.Favorite Singer/Band: John Mayer, Chris Tomlin, and, Jason Aldean of course Lil Wayne (I like a little of it all)
5.Favorite Quote: this is the best i have right now..."Life 's a beach and I am just playing in the sand"
6.Favorite Hobby: Coaching Cheer, Shopping, Pedi's Mani's, TEXTING and READING!!!
7.Favorite Sport/sports team: Cheer of course/ Rangers, Cowboys and Mavs
8.Favorite thing to do on the weekends: hang out with my AMAZING group of friends, watch Neely play ball, and hang with my fam!
9.Favorite thing about 6th grade: I love reading out loud to my kiddos!!!!
10.Favorite BOOK: Well this year Sorta Like a Rockstar (it is a YA book, but I loooooveeed it)
Chapter 2:
Cowen's Timeline of important EVENTS
•Re write them in complete sentences and use descriptive words. They need to be in time order (chronological order)
1986- Jordan Cowen was born (with a slight cone head...sorry mom)
1988- Alex Cowen was born (he made up my nick name that my dad and papa still call me Juju)
1991- Neely Cowe was born (crazy nee... I love her to death and I can't imagine not having a sister)
1993- I started Kindergarten and I had the most amazing teacher Ms. Green. I cried when we had a sub. I still remember being in her class
1995- Ms. Mayberry made me sign the book 5 times in one day because I didn't write my name on my papers. I cried and was devastated. I believe that is why on the last day of school i threw up everywhere in her classroom
1995- My little brother Reeders was born. I thought he was my own child for a while :) he is awesome
1995- Dee had her aneurysm. Our lives were changed forever
1999- I was in the top ten in my 7th grade class at Lamar (the only time i have ever been in the top 10 of anything!!)
2001- I started Nimitz and was extremely scared
2003- I finally became a high school cheerleader... talk about good times, tears, and my laughs! My best friends dad died as well...our lives were changed again forever
2004- Momma diagnosed with Breast Cancer
2005- Graduated from NHS and went to Texas A&M
2007- Transferred to UNT and started studying sociology (best decision ever)
2009- Graduated with a degree from UNT, Started my first teaching job and fell in love and found my true passion
2010- Started teaching 6th grade reading and now I teach some of the most AMAZING 6th graders EVER... they are sweet! I also get to see my Momma everyday!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Fact or Opinion...I mean REALLY
Tomorrow is TAKS review of course because we only have 2 weeks left until TAKS testing!!! I was looking at objective that my students are struggling with and to my surprise...it was FACT and OPINION. I thought I had learned this in maybe 3rd grade, but my sweet babies just don't get it. So tomorrow I am teaching FACT and OPINION. They have a HARD time understanding that it does not mean it is an OPINION if it stated in the story. I got this alll day long, "but Ms. it says it in the story...it HAS to be a FACT." So today after school I started to get my lesson ready. I came up with a sweeet fact and opinion game...made and assessment then I started to make my Prezi (it is better than a power point I promise). I work backwards... crazy i know, but I am CRAZZZYYY these days. As I started to make my prezi... I started to explain the difference between fact and opinion. I kept changing my wording around because it was even HARD for me to really understand a fact and opinion. Our society has set such NORMS we as humans have a hard time distinguishing between a FACT and OPINION. This topic i guess has been so relevant in my life lately...and i mean in dealing with people. It amazes me how deceitful people can be. I used to care what other thought and not speak what was on my mind, but in my "older days"... i guess you could say...that has all changed!!! My mom asked me about a year ago if I was ever going to find my filter... i told her NO!!! I am WHO I AM and there is not much more too it. Hate me love me...I don't always CARE! :) Anyways... It it sometimes hard to distinguish between (FACT PERSON) and a fake person (I guess we can call them an OPINION person). As a sorta naive person...this has been hard for me to grasp lately. I just don't get it... it takes so much more energy to be mean than nice. P.S. I am working on not being mean as well..although I am not deciteful! What you see is what you GET with this GIRL!!! All that being said... i know...I am wordy tonight... I am so THANKFUL and BLESSED that God has shown me lately who the FACT people are in my life. It is so nice to lean on my sweet friends and family. God is truly faithful, and I am so ever grateful for that! Life is much more sweet with out those opinion people!!! ;) Love you all, JC
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Talk about falling on your face!
This has def. been the most TRYING week of my entire life. I have cried, laughed, yelled, argued, and the list goes on. I have had my own share of pity parties in my life. This week was def. an eye opener for me. I always have thought I was sad or hurt...but now i know the feeling f a broken heart! I have learned so much in the past week about myself and people in general... here are 10 things i learned this week...
1. I am in LOVE with teaching. I mean i have always known that, but this week I found out how much I truly love what I do
2. I have learned the true meaning of HURT
3. I have learned that my family will always be there to support me NO matter what
4. I have been blessed with the best friends in the entire world
5. I am one pretty tough girl...and i am working on not caring what others think about me, and not letting others try to tell me how to run my life. I am 24 now...i think i can handle it!!! ;)
6. Neely is one awesome ball player even with a torn whatever she has
7. It is okay to have a change of <333
8. Laughing until you cry is the BEST
9. I truly treasure read aloud time with my kiddos
10. I have a true and faithful God
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Spring Break, Sweet Times, and Falling Down times 4
Spring Break has so come and gone. I am pretty sad. I have missed by sweet babies, but this has been the BEST Spring Break in a long time. I so needed a break from school, cheer, and my everyday routine.
During spring break I have managed to fall down a good 4 times. I have a bruised hand, a bruised leg, and a bruised ankle. I think I might need to get my eyes checked...or my dad says that I am "just not paying attention"... i think hes full of it!
Here are my top 10 reasons for LOVING Spring Break
10. laying by the pool with two of my sweetest friends
9. falling down at billy bobs doing the copperhead road (it was CLASSIC)
8. Getting to go to uptown with my grandma, aunt, cousin, and best friend
7. Sleeping until 11:00 o'clock (i can't wait for summer... i will NOT be teaching summer school)
6. Triple Date at fire side pies and pitchers of sangria (white sangria that is)
5. Dress shopping with Mandi and giving jenny hell (she was mean)
4. D-town boogie, jersey turn piking, fist pumping, and dancing oh and mandi doing squats through out the apt with her slim fast cans
3. our christmas tree still being up and i turned it on ( i mean who doesn't love christmas year around)
2. Shopping with my momma at urban out fitters for a good 2 hours and eating lunch with her and reeders
1. laughing for hours in my dads room with dad, nee, brother, and brit.
Love you, happy spring, and 12 more MONDAY'S until school is out!
JC
During spring break I have managed to fall down a good 4 times. I have a bruised hand, a bruised leg, and a bruised ankle. I think I might need to get my eyes checked...or my dad says that I am "just not paying attention"... i think hes full of it!
Here are my top 10 reasons for LOVING Spring Break
10. laying by the pool with two of my sweetest friends
9. falling down at billy bobs doing the copperhead road (it was CLASSIC)
8. Getting to go to uptown with my grandma, aunt, cousin, and best friend
7. Sleeping until 11:00 o'clock (i can't wait for summer... i will NOT be teaching summer school)
6. Triple Date at fire side pies and pitchers of sangria (white sangria that is)
5. Dress shopping with Mandi and giving jenny hell (she was mean)
4. D-town boogie, jersey turn piking, fist pumping, and dancing oh and mandi doing squats through out the apt with her slim fast cans
3. our christmas tree still being up and i turned it on ( i mean who doesn't love christmas year around)
2. Shopping with my momma at urban out fitters for a good 2 hours and eating lunch with her and reeders
1. laughing for hours in my dads room with dad, nee, brother, and brit.
Love you, happy spring, and 12 more MONDAY'S until school is out!
JC
Monday, February 21, 2011
Winning Speaks Volumes
What a sweeeet weekend
1. 30 bday bash-success love you lisa wall
2. got to see my SISTER and Court LOVE you all
3. got to see MY Nanny and Papa!!!!!!!
Anyways... My dad called me last night on the way home from the cheer competition around 9:30. I was around spirited cheer parents, dads in tu tu's (I have got nothing on that one), loud blaring music, crazy noise makers for 11 hours. I love cheerleading...but not that much. Although the long long day going on three hours of sleep was well worth it. Back to my dad's phone call...if you don't know my dad, he might be a little bit competitive. Okay...maybe more than a little bit he is very competitive. So he always calls and goes how did you do... I said, "We did very well we placed 1st in our division and 3rd out of all level 2 teams. We got beat by two Sr. teams which could have 18 year olds on them. Our youngest is 6. We beat two large gym teams which is very hard to do considering we are small gym." His response was…” Well I am guessing no angry cheer moms” and I respond with something along the lines of “True Story” He then proceeds to say “Winning Speaks Volumes” It shouldn’t have shocked me, but I am not going to lie it did!!! After I got off the phone with him, I really started thinking about the quote. I agree winning does speak volumes, and I am certainly a huge fan of winning. I might have even been a bit angry if we didn’t win yesterday because I am a competitive person in most things I do. I don’t like to lose @ all. BUTTTTTT… I feel that our gym and our team is so much more about winning. I hope to instill good character, friendships, honesty, integrity, and always giving it your all in my kids. Then I started thinking… our kids at our gym are all of these things. We have a cheerleader that has struggled in some tumbling areas. (So at warm up…yes during WARM UP… which is like extremely intense. I become some what of a crazy at that point…) I pull our kid that is having a hard time mentally with tumbling right now to a matt. We start working on her back walk over backhand spring. She gets and as all 18 other kids watch her do it by herself. They clap for her and all scream YESSSSS! That to me is so much more important than winning 1st or coming in 3rd out of 19 teams. Their attitudes and sweet hearts SPEAK VOLUMES. It amazes me that at 6-12 years old these kids are so compassionate. I also watched at individual competition one of our kids give the “thumbs up” to another as she was about to take the floor several times. I just wanted to share this with you… because yes winning is so important (not going to lie it is very important to me) but having a sweet heart and being compassionate speaks even louder volumes. Thank you 6-12 year olds for teaching Ms. Jordan such an important lesson!!! I love you guys so much!
JC
1. 30 bday bash-success love you lisa wall
2. got to see my SISTER and Court LOVE you all
3. got to see MY Nanny and Papa!!!!!!!
Anyways... My dad called me last night on the way home from the cheer competition around 9:30. I was around spirited cheer parents, dads in tu tu's (I have got nothing on that one), loud blaring music, crazy noise makers for 11 hours. I love cheerleading...but not that much. Although the long long day going on three hours of sleep was well worth it. Back to my dad's phone call...if you don't know my dad, he might be a little bit competitive. Okay...maybe more than a little bit he is very competitive. So he always calls and goes how did you do... I said, "We did very well we placed 1st in our division and 3rd out of all level 2 teams. We got beat by two Sr. teams which could have 18 year olds on them. Our youngest is 6. We beat two large gym teams which is very hard to do considering we are small gym." His response was…” Well I am guessing no angry cheer moms” and I respond with something along the lines of “True Story” He then proceeds to say “Winning Speaks Volumes” It shouldn’t have shocked me, but I am not going to lie it did!!! After I got off the phone with him, I really started thinking about the quote. I agree winning does speak volumes, and I am certainly a huge fan of winning. I might have even been a bit angry if we didn’t win yesterday because I am a competitive person in most things I do. I don’t like to lose @ all. BUTTTTTT… I feel that our gym and our team is so much more about winning. I hope to instill good character, friendships, honesty, integrity, and always giving it your all in my kids. Then I started thinking… our kids at our gym are all of these things. We have a cheerleader that has struggled in some tumbling areas. (So at warm up…yes during WARM UP… which is like extremely intense. I become some what of a crazy at that point…) I pull our kid that is having a hard time mentally with tumbling right now to a matt. We start working on her back walk over backhand spring. She gets and as all 18 other kids watch her do it by herself. They clap for her and all scream YESSSSS! That to me is so much more important than winning 1st or coming in 3rd out of 19 teams. Their attitudes and sweet hearts SPEAK VOLUMES. It amazes me that at 6-12 years old these kids are so compassionate. I also watched at individual competition one of our kids give the “thumbs up” to another as she was about to take the floor several times. I just wanted to share this with you… because yes winning is so important (not going to lie it is very important to me) but having a sweet heart and being compassionate speaks even louder volumes. Thank you 6-12 year olds for teaching Ms. Jordan such an important lesson!!! I love you guys so much!
JC
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Love just might be in the air!!!
Well so far since December three of my BEST friends have gotten engaged (lots f happy tears and I am I totally excited)... and of course we have two babies on the way too! I think it is best to say love is in the AIR foooo shooowww!! My dad asked me on Saturday if I was going to be the 27 dresses girl... I told him...I just might! I could not be happier for my friends! This next year or so is going to be busy, and I am going to LOVE every minute of it!!!! Not only has love been in the air romantically, but this past week I have been working on being ME i guess you could say... never in my life have I felt so LOVED by my friends and family...here is how it started .
1. Last Saturday I sat at a restaurant will call it for 8 hrs and laughed and laugh and laughed with such sweet funny friends
2. I had dinner with MM...we had not had dinner or seen each other in a month
3. Neely called and messaged me numerous times last week (i usually get a call or text every so often)
4. LW left me a voice message that said butterflies and sunshine one day after gym (made me laugh, and I saved it so I can listen to it when I need a smile)
5. SL sent me a message one night that said you are loved
6. NG sent me a fb message that said xoxoxoxo
7. My aunt called and she wants to get a tattoo and have a GNO I love her sweet spirit!
8. I got to eat with both of my parents this weekend and Reeders! It has been a while... and of course we did do something a little mischievous all together pretttyyyy funny! Somethings never change!!!!
9. I ran THREE times this week (which means I love myself haaa)
10. AM- left me a weeezzzzy message (does not get much better than that)
11. mandi made me a Malibu bomb which it totally was the bomb!
12. DS-my teaching partner brought me breakfast and a monkey with a heart...shes pretty sweeettt!!!
All these things happend for a reason, and I couldn't be more thankful for such an amazing people God has put in my life.
So here is to a LOVING Happy Valentines day!!!! Love you all!!
1. Last Saturday I sat at a restaurant will call it for 8 hrs and laughed and laugh and laughed with such sweet funny friends
2. I had dinner with MM...we had not had dinner or seen each other in a month
3. Neely called and messaged me numerous times last week (i usually get a call or text every so often)
4. LW left me a voice message that said butterflies and sunshine one day after gym (made me laugh, and I saved it so I can listen to it when I need a smile)
5. SL sent me a message one night that said you are loved
6. NG sent me a fb message that said xoxoxoxo
7. My aunt called and she wants to get a tattoo and have a GNO I love her sweet spirit!
8. I got to eat with both of my parents this weekend and Reeders! It has been a while... and of course we did do something a little mischievous all together pretttyyyy funny! Somethings never change!!!!
9. I ran THREE times this week (which means I love myself haaa)
10. AM- left me a weeezzzzy message (does not get much better than that)
11. mandi made me a Malibu bomb which it totally was the bomb!
12. DS-my teaching partner brought me breakfast and a monkey with a heart...shes pretty sweeettt!!!
All these things happend for a reason, and I couldn't be more thankful for such an amazing people God has put in my life.
So here is to a LOVING Happy Valentines day!!!! Love you all!!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Less than Perfect
It has been a while since I have blogged!! I am sure you are totally missing my lovely words ;)
Life has been really busy until this week. 4 days off of work nearly killed me. I had new clue how busy I had to be ALLLL the time.
In the last week I have learned so much while being couped up in my 2 by 2 apartment. Here are a few things I have learned...well 7 things I learned this week!!!!
1. I truly love my job... I have missed my classroom, my crazy kids, my co workers, and lunches with mom, kay and esmi
2. I live with one of the most patient people. I am not sure how Mandi deals with me, but I am so thankful for her
3. I have such an amazing group of friends!!!! I am so blessed to have taught at LMS and met some of the most sweeeeettttest people ever. Then today I get to go hang out with my sweeeetttt friends i have known most of my life.
4. I miss my sister, and she always knows how to make me laugh. I love her free spirit (that is what i have chosen to call her behavior i guess you could say)
5. People are not always who you think they are, but all things happen for a reason. I am one tough girl...tougher and stronger than I give myself credit for (ask my 6th graders or cheerleaders...they might even tell you I can be mean and tough @ times!!)
6. Umm... new jersey turnpike (My friends might or might not know how to rock this)
7. My life is far from less than perfect, and I might have made a wrong turn once or twice...but this is my silly life ( ps. i heart pink.) With all the chaos, tears, and lauhgs, I have learned to be thankful for what I have and those who appreciate me for me!!!
Heres to a Week of no SNOWWWWWWW
love you all
JC
Life has been really busy until this week. 4 days off of work nearly killed me. I had new clue how busy I had to be ALLLL the time.
In the last week I have learned so much while being couped up in my 2 by 2 apartment. Here are a few things I have learned...well 7 things I learned this week!!!!
1. I truly love my job... I have missed my classroom, my crazy kids, my co workers, and lunches with mom, kay and esmi
2. I live with one of the most patient people. I am not sure how Mandi deals with me, but I am so thankful for her
3. I have such an amazing group of friends!!!! I am so blessed to have taught at LMS and met some of the most sweeeeettttest people ever. Then today I get to go hang out with my sweeeetttt friends i have known most of my life.
4. I miss my sister, and she always knows how to make me laugh. I love her free spirit (that is what i have chosen to call her behavior i guess you could say)
5. People are not always who you think they are, but all things happen for a reason. I am one tough girl...tougher and stronger than I give myself credit for (ask my 6th graders or cheerleaders...they might even tell you I can be mean and tough @ times!!)
6. Umm... new jersey turnpike (My friends might or might not know how to rock this)
7. My life is far from less than perfect, and I might have made a wrong turn once or twice...but this is my silly life ( ps. i heart pink.) With all the chaos, tears, and lauhgs, I have learned to be thankful for what I have and those who appreciate me for me!!!
Heres to a Week of no SNOWWWWWWW
love you all
JC
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