ALL ABOUT ME

As a teacher of young children, I always like to start the school year getting to know each of the kids and letting them get to know me. We do this by creating an "All About Me" book and add to it as the year goes on. As I venture down the path of blogging, I figured all you curious friends and family may enjoy a glimpse into some of the daily basics. Although I will spare you my painted handprints and self portrait, I will share my second home...my classroom.

This is my classroom. This is where we play, laugh, learn, and cry. I took this picture today before my afternoon preschool class. All was calm, and then they came. Today was not a typical day, but not an unusual day. Today was the first day after spring break. One week of no class can send preschoolers with high needs into a spin. Today was spinning, especially in the afternoon class. Today is the kind of day that makes me wonder why I torture myself, even if they are adorable (a few of them were not showing their adorable side today). Today is the kind of day where I wonder what they learned. Today, when I turned on the walkie talkie to radio for help, the batteries were dead. Today, I wanted to cry. But I didn't and Wednesday, when they return, I will be ready, or I will cry.

This is one half of our most recent bulletin board. This side was created by my morning class. I love this bulletin board. The kids created every aspect of it. Their project was to create an animal using shapes. I don't know about you, but I see a few houses, and two, maybe three, identifiable animals. Check out the green one on the bottom right. It's a dog.

Meet Whiskers

Whiskers is our class rat. She's new and was voted on as our class favorite after trying out a fish, hermit crab, rat and zebra finches. This little experiment came about after the tragic death of our class guinea pig, Joe. Whiskers is an amazing pet (much better than the guinea pig) and I would highly recommend a rat to anyone wanting something sweet and fuzzy (just don't ask the Endorphin Junkie "EJ" about it). Whiskers brightens our day and can increase interaction for some of my students. I'm glad she won our vote, second place was the fish.