First Week of Summer Break

Well, thank you to Jerelyn for getting me started with the whole blogging thing here.

First week of summer break is here. It's not really a true break because I will be teaching summer school at WAMS for four weeks, starting next week. So during my vacation weeks, my true sleeping patterns emerge. If it were up to me, I would stay up till about 3am every morning. Wake up around 9-10am. Take a couple hour long nap from 2-4pm, and start all over again. heehee, i wish! Here are a few pics from this week. I've been spending some time relaxing at home with the husband and pups.

I can not believe another year of teaching has passed. This was my 7th year of teaching and it went by the fastest. People might think teaching the same subjects (Life and Physical Science) year after year might get repetitive, but each set of kids brings new adventures.

Examples:

Year 1: Hearing a kid tell me "I hope you die"

Year 2: Catching girls pierce their own belly buttons in the girls restroom

Year 3: Nearly destroying a student's science fair project driving it to the district science fair

(remember that Liz?)

Year 4: Saving a kid from choking on a swallowed guitar pick in my class.

Year 5: Meeting a great lifelong friend (even if she would rather be teaching at the high school)

Year 6: Nearly winning the district 5th/6th grade girls volleyball championship as head coach

Year 7: Helping send 7 of my students to the state science fair

Even though there are times when I look at a pile of homework/tests that I need to grade and think, what's the point?

Even though there are times when I feel unappreciated by my students, students parents, and administration and think why do I work so hard?

Even though there are times when I look at my pay stub and think, is this what I am worth?

All it takes is one student to say, "Thank you" and mean it and I know why I do what I do.