Gathering #114

Here are #5 and 6

#6- My kids. They make me laugh, mad, excited, and just happy to be around them

#5- Assemblies. Especially assemblies where kids in my school perform. The 5th grade just put on the jungle book and it was so perfect.

Gathering #113

Sorry life got a little crazy.

Here are:

#10- Rock star status. Anytime I see my students in public its like I am a rock star.

#9- My hours. Technically I work more then this but my contract hours are from 7:45-2:55. Hard life

#8-  The ability to control a room of people with a look or a word.

#7- That I only have 7 more school days, until summer break!

Gathering #112

#11- I call it the light bulb moment. I love it when I am teaching something, and all of a sudden I see that what I am saying makes sense to my students. Its like you can see the light bulb go off.

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#12- The crazy things that I do for my kids. Today involved Popsicle and voting on what we would get next time we filled our jar with gold coins, but I have played minute to win it. In front of 650 kids chanting my name. Next week I will be doing a 6 minute dance just to get them excited about our 5k

Gathering #110

There are only 13 more school days! I like all the rest of the education world are silently counting down those days. So I decided that I would do a little countdown for all of you to follow me on my journey to summer break.
So for the next 13 school days I will being do the top 13 reasons I love being a teacher

#13- I love the location of my school. It is close enough that it does not take me long to get to and from work, but far enough away that I don't run into my students at the grocery store on Saturday mornings when I am in my pj's, hair pulled up on the top of my head, with no makeup on.

Gathering #109

Changes! Lots of changes in my life. School is wrapping up and I just made my class lists for next year. I was just put in as the Relief Society President (that accounts for my past stress post), and most important change I have a new niece. Can't wait to see her on Friday!

Gathering #108

Stressed! Major stress! Do you ever feel that you are being sucked into a tornado of stress and there is nothing you can do about it? That's how I feel right now. My weeks are running into each other and I have official had to write "read" on my to do list. My coping strategy for the stress is to lay on my bed and watch t.v. but what does that do for me, adds more stress because I am not doing the things I should be doing to relieve the stress. So the t.v. adds stress, and I don't get done the important things. Today I decided to take control of the stress and work my way to the eye of my stress tornado. The eye of a tornado is the calm spot. So as the stress is blowing all around me I will be calm. I will be cool. I will be collected. I will not allow the stress to get to me. I will take action. I know the stress is going no where, but I am. I am going to the eye. I will be calm, I will be calm, I will be calm. I hope it works. Cross your fingers and wish me luck, as I calmly take control of the stress!