Five
For Fraturday
Happy summer! Another year in the books. I just
finished year 5 of being a kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teacher.
Yup that's right I teach three grades, although I don't have the same amount of
students as in a regular classroom planning three curriculum each day has it's
challenges and is definitely time consuming. It's been nice not having to plan
for those three grades every week. Well, I'd love to say I'll be by the pool
all summer reading Gone Girl all summer long but that is not my reality. This summer I have
taken on two jobs in hopes of buying a laptop at the end of the summer. I work at a camp three days a week and babysit two of my favorite
students twice a week. Now to talk about my
last days at my school.
One
Aren't these cute! I saw these on Pinterest and thought
how cute! Seems easy enough plus I only have 10 students. This was a perfect
end of year art project. I asked the students their preferences (the project
had a survey with questions about themselves and school) and printed out all
the clothes, heads, accessories and hair. We
put them together and they were perfect for our Promotion Night! Thanks Donna
Glynn Kinderglynn for such a fun project!
Two
Promotion night was filled with entertainment. Our music teacher did some songs with my little peaches and the big peaches. We also got two grants to have this wonderful program called Young Imaginations which is music and dance program that sends teachers to schools that don't have liberal arts. Young Imaginations performed songs, the peaches played the recorder and ukulele. Both performances were awesome! I loved the big peaches rendition of Yellow Submarine.
Three
Onto
the awards. Every year we switch between candy awards and people awards. Both
talk about their personalities which is a big part of who they are at school. I
had so much fun giving out the awards and even got teary eyed at the
realization of how far they had all come this year. I had such a bright and
inquisitive class this year. The hardest part was listening to my colleague's
speech for a student I've known and taught for five years who was leaving to attend the
junior high. I tried to keep it together but the tears just started flowing. It
didn't help either that one of the big peaches was asking what's wrong... gahh!
Anyways the night was full of smiles, laughter and tears.. another successful
Promotion Night!
Four
I am lucky enough to be at a school where the graduating kids get to pick
something for the upper grades to do at the end of the year. It has
consistently been sleeping over at the school. This involves creating a
"haunted house", watching a movie, eating lots of junk, and maybe a
little sleep. Luckily I get the girls room where they pass out pretty quickly
but for the boys next door they go into the wee hours of the night. They all
have so much fun and it's a memory they will have for years to come, seriously
who can say they had a sleepover at their school! Yes that's me below with two
of the girls in my room. And the little guy at the bottom of the picture, whose
usual bedtime is 8:00 p.m., stayed up until 2:30 a.m. CRAZY!
Five
My
last two bulletin boards for the year! I tried my hardest (starting in January all year)
to change up the bulletin boards monthly. We had our end of year
countdown going on and thanks to Fluttering
in First Grade's father's day craft a Father's Day bulletin board. Both
were really fun to make and I love the dads my peaches made, the mustaches and beards make me laugh.
So on
top of all the craziness that is the end of the year I decided to celebrate our
dads. After a successful Mother's
Day Tea I took on the Donuts with Dads project with ease. Mrs.
Plemons Kindergarten has a great program. Using her program we sang two
songs, read a story, and sang a donuts song. It was the perfect ending to
the school year/last day of school. Very proud of all my peaches and all their
achievements this year! That's all for now, "donut" want to keep my
birthday hubby waiting!
