Erica Frymire
Address: 143 N. Gun Club Rd
City: Independence
State: Oregon
Zip: 97351
Country: United States
objective
I am a soon to be college graduate with a bachelors degree who is seeking employment in the social services field, in an area where I can put the book knowledge in History to use. I have experience working with elementary school age children, as well as word processing and microsoft excel skills. nothing is more exciting for me than to help get children excited about history and reading and help them learn necessary life skills in a fun way, outside the classroom setting.
Work Experience
Babysitter (09/16/2002 – 06/12/2010)
I have babysat 10 different children over a several year period
Last Employer: Parents, Portland Oregon and Dallas Oregon
Contact Person: n/a
Responsibilities: picking up children from school, help children with homework, feed children meals, change diapers when necessary, bathe children, entertain children, put children to bed. provide a safe, loving, caring, and fun environment while maintaining disapline for the children I have cared for while their parents have had a break for a few hours.
Accomplishments: cared for up to five children at the same time in their home or the home of their cousins. I have cared for three young children, with a difference in age between the oldest and youngest of only fifteen months at the same time, with no more than normal bumps, and falls that children under the age of three have.
Volunteer (09/19/2005 – 06/14/2006)
I volunteered in a first grade classroom
Last Employer: Portland Public Schools
Contact Person: n/a
Responsibilities: I helped with reading, writing, math, science, and helped the teacher with the activities while I was there. I often stayed after the children left to help clean up, and prepare for the next day, decorating, or other activites the children would be doing in the days to follow.
Accomplishments: was a chaperone on a field trip at the age of 18. I gained two high school credits for my time spent helping.
Education
Establishment: Western Oregon University
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Social Science, minor of literature
Education Period: 09/25/2006 - 06/12/2010
Average Grade: 2.64
Details: within the Social Science major, I have focused on History, even more so United States history. I have also taken two criminal justice courses, two geography courses, and two Antropology, including one in Museum Studies. I minored in Literature, taking classes in British Literature to be exposed to more than I would have otherwise.
Establishment: Grover Cleveland High School
Degree: High School Diploma
Education Period: 09/10/2002 - 06/02/2006
Average Grade: 2.89
Details: Senior class secretary, Principal's Honor Roll first semester 2004 - 2005, participated in both Band and Choir. took an elective course called "street law"
Skills
some library filing, some Historical research and writing. I have used MLA and Chicago citations. comfertable with working with elementary school age children on and individual and small group basis as well as experience with groups of 20 children. some experience in working with Middle School and High School age young adults on an individual and small group basis.
Computer Skills: Windows OS, most commonly use XP, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Internet Explorer and at times Fire Fox
Foreign Language Skills: I took two years of high school french.
Additional Information
I like to get children and young adults to enjoy learning and using what they have learned to use outside of the classroom setting. getting them to want to learn about the world around them, and get outside their normal area, and see where they came from, and that there is more in this world they see everyday, and they are only one of roughly seven billion people who call this planet home.
Honors: Principal's Honor Roll first semester 2004 - 2005. Elda Washer Scholarship
Research Projects: I am currently working on learning about US history, to better understand my heritage, and apply what I have learned to my life, and learn about life in other countries, especially those where my ancestors came from.
Publications: none
Interests
I like to read, travel, take pictures of the places I visit, and write about the places I am able to visit. visiting new places is important to me, because there is more to this world than the dot on the map in which I live, and I want a well rounded experience, and not staying in the same place my whole life has helped me to grow as a person, and to help me gain a better understanding of where I have come from. I enjoy working with young people immensely because they are the future, and as a human, we all have our life to live, and it is what we make if it, and it should be lived to the fullest, and we should be able to do what we are good at and love.