Learning Through Life

Good Morning.   I'm sitting here, literally minutes away from getting dressed and starting my day as a teacher.  Every day when I walk through those classroom doors, I drop my baggage, my bad days, my worries and focus on my class. What many know and some don't is I also walk my own two kids through the doors and send them off to their own classrooms.  A place where I am now just a parent and no longer the sole protector of them. I don't think about it most days honestly. This morning I am though. I woke up to text messages from some of my parents, facebook posts and a pit in my stomach. Apparently on Tik Tok (which I don't have and don't know how to use) there is a nationwide threat of school violence for tomorrow, December 17th.   My first reaction was....not at my school.  We're a small Montessori school that attracts good families and our students are not like all of the "public" school kids.  But in reality, it could ...

  Hey There!  I'm over here living the dream during these next few "sandwich weeks."  For those who do not work in education, these are the 3 chaotic weeks that are "sandwiched" in between Thanksgiving and Christmas in which you spend most of your time answering questions about Santa, making glittery crafts and also trying to cram in assessments, lessons and everything else that could possibly be thrown your way. Oh yea, and most kids are staying up a little later, busy with holiday festivities and probably are eating waaaaayyyyy more sugar than usual.  Don't forget Halloween was right before this too!   I absolutely love the holidays as a teacher and as a parent. However, they can definitely feel like a whirlwind with a huge let down at the end of them. I often feel like I "ran out of time" with my students and there was so much more I wanted to do.   Today started out incredibly busy. I was like a firefighter putting out...