for teachers part II: from a to z

For those of you wondering how my life as a teacher is going so far- in the most teacher-ish style that entered my mind…

A– Asking questions. Answering questions. Questions of all sizes, colors and shapes. Apparently that’s what school is all about.

B- Beautiful penmanship pages. #the way to a teacher’s heart

C- Corrections. Not of general enjoyment.

D- Designated Decoy. That’s Chandler and his self-chosen title for whenever we play Dare Base. We love it.

E- Extreme excitement at such a small thing as going to the pop machine in Pence for Art. #this is why I teach

F- “Fill up my Cup”… number thirty three. We sing it nearly as much as is physically and vocally possible.

G- Green beans. Jesse and Jaxon always have plenty to say on that subject. “Eeeewww!! they’re disgusting!!”

H- Hamburgers… “now those are the best”. -also Jesse and Jaxon

I- “Interrogative????” That’s how we say it to remember that an interrogative sentence asks a question.

J- Jumping jacks. Apparently my class can do several thousand without even breaking a sweat (if they make up numbers as they go along!)

K- “Kids these days!!” we teachers exclaim as we charge past each other in the hallway on our way to our own little energetic classrooms.

L- Lunch, of course! #main topic of discussion

N- Never ending thought pattern lately: Sleep is for the weak. Just kidding. Don’t do that, Ciara. Actually do. You’ll sleep when you’re dead. Aaahhhh!!

M- Miss Koehn, Miss Ashley, Mr. Goosen, myself and now Miss Lauren. We make a great team “despite the circumstances”.

O- Oreos!!! #favorite desert/ topic of conversation

P- Puns and how to use them. Something I wish I would have known in first or second grade. Or do I…?!

Q- “Quietly“… the adverb for everything.

R- Riding in the Tweedle Beetle. (All five of my students “fit” in the back seat!!)

S- Singing “The Donut Song” every day before we go home… I’m definitely not singing a solo anymore!

T- The disturbing reality that most of the school children have youth-age siblings when you regularly hear words like “yeeeeet”, “boi”, and “just send it” floating around the school…

U- Upcoming Poem Fest. We memorized a poem I learned in lower grades. “Come, little leaves, said the wind one day…”

V- Volcanos. A favorite impromptu science class in the middle of American History.

W- Walks on Tuesday mornings for devotions. Yep. Enough said.

X- “X will come in handy if your name is Knixxy Knox. Or in spelling ax and extra fox.” A lesson from Dr. Suess when first grade couldn’t imagine why they would ever need to know how to write the letter x.

Y- Yelling “CHANGING ITS” at the top of my lungs. It suddenly struck me that my school days aren’t actually as far back in history as I had believed…

Z- Z… “my favorite cursive letter…” -2nd grade

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