Back to School--Can't Wait!

Guest blogger, A's Mom

Can't wait!!!!!  When A and W were little, I dreaded going back to school because it meant them going back to daycare.
Once they were school age, I didn't mind.  Now that they are grown, I am ready for a middle school fix.  It gets lonely with no kiddies around (except for Portis).  Now, don't get me wrong-- I will be ready for weekends and living for Thanksgiving  and Christmas break!

I helped A get her room ready (loved it!) and D helped me get my room ready--thank you D!

After 31 years of doing this, I still enjoy my profession--the excitement of meeting your 90 new students, starting out new, revamping instruction to meet your students needs, and getting to know the new little people.  I teach 6th grade now (through the years I have taught different secondary sciences--Earth Science, Biology, Physical Science, Life Science, and now General Science--I even did Gifted Ed for 9 years).  I found as I got older I went younger with my students!  I love being their surrogate mother as well as their teacher.  Is there a theme here--I like being a Mother!

Teaching is such a purposeful profession. 

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather  It is wonderful when adults who you taught see you in town and tell them something you said that they still remember.  D not only taught, but coached.  I cannot tell you how many of his former athletes still talk to him about things he said to them.


In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun 


Teaching creates all other professions. ~Author Unknown

Have a wonderful school year and life!!!!!!