Come What May and Love It

I have been teaching Kindergarten for the last month. I decided I needed to write down some of the things that I learned during this time. Enjoy! 1. Any job that involves handing out snacks twice a day is the job for me! 2. If you have a runny nose, you are not sick enough to miss school. It means that you will be blowing your nose twenty-bajillion times a day, but you will still stand up in front of the class and teach. 3. Wearing a name tag does not make you a teacher. You still need to establish your role as a teacher and not as a friend. 4. Something will always go wrong. You can plan for hours and hours and then suddenly a kid will be crying in the back of the class and all of your plans go out the window. 5. Even when you are tough with children they still love you and will hug you at the end of the day. 6. 5 year olds are more self-conscious then you would think. 7. You will become an expert at tying a double knot in less than 5 seconds. 8. When you line up the chil...

This week has been a crazy one. Last Thursday, I looked in the mirror before leaving for school and realized something. I am going to be a teacher? That question mark represents my surprise. I have wanted this for so long and now I am seeing it coming true. It is crazy. Today, I was talking to a good friend about why I chose to go into Elementary Education. This made me reflect on my own life and my own journey. I figured now would be a good time to write it down for my posterity to read one day. I was that child. In kindergarten, I remember drawing a picture of a teacher when we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. It has never changed. I cannot say that it has not been questioned every now and then. One fond memory proves this very point. In 4th grade I was set upon being a tight rope walker after reading a story about a girl in the circus. I practiced for hours on our backyard wall because my mom said that was good practice before using a rope. Now I realize that...