Hello everyone. I wanted to take the time to introduce myself and tell you all a little bit about me. My name is Fran Martin and I am 45 years old. I live in Connecticut with my husband Jason and my son Jason age 9. I am a Special Education Teacher who teaches elementary aged students in grades first through third in a self-contained setting. Most of my students have difficult time regulating their emotions. and I love working with them and teaching them. Teaching is one of my passions in life. I have a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a minor in English, I have a Master’s in Special Education and I am currently pursuing my 6th year degree in Literacy. My goal is to obtain my PhD in social emotional learning in the future. I am really excited to begin my new journey in the blogging world and begin my new blog entitled Skies of Blue. In my blog I will be writing about a wide range of topics that I am really interested in and writing about topics that I hope my readers will be interested in. This is my first time doing all of this so I am learning and trying to navigate this new world the best that I know how for now. I would really love it if anyone has any tips that they could me while I am just starting out. My cousin Sue is going to help me set this up on Saturday, March 23, 2024. March 23rd will be the first day that my blog is up and running. I am feeling so many different emotions right now. I feel super excited, super scared, super vulnerable, anxious, curious and most of all blessed that I can do this. Having technology at my fingertips to be able to do what I love which is to write I feel so blessed that I have this opportunity to share with the world my pieces of writing. I also feel like this blog will be kind of a journal for me in that I can put my thoughts and feelings out there and share pieces with the world that I hope they will get something out of it. I will be blogging once a week to start off and I hope that you will join me in subscribing and following me along throughout this amazing journey. I welcome positive comments and constructive criticism. I am worried about receiving comments that are not so friendly that worries me a little but I am a pretty positive person. I hope you all will join me on my journey. I look forward to it all!

Bye for now!
Fran