SNOW DAY!!!

First snow day as a full-time teacher. I love the excitement at the school (I drove in, as it was decided to close the school after I arrived). I decided to stay and help answer phones, watch kids, and inform parents who drive up. It's more fun to be here than at home (never thought I'd think that about snow days). Everyone's bustling around and full of snow joy.

Quotes to ponder

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown

Fall

Fall is in full swing here in kindergarten. I am already cold standing out in recess and can only imagine this winter out there with the kids. I never remember standing outside in the winter during recess when I was in elementary school. I've either blocked it out or I was running around so much that the cold didn't bother me. Anyway, I came prepared this morning with a long coat, hat, scarf, and mittens. Recess, here I come!