While I was on maternity leave I applied for a position at Shortreed Elementary. 1) because I had heard a lot of good things about their self regulation program and 2) because it is so close to my house that I can walk! Score!
So I am a grade 4 teacher! With my very own class! It is MY room! The staff is great, the students are great, the parents are great. It is all around a nice school to be at. BUT... and this is a big but....
I came back to work in term three and I had a VERY challenging class. If any of you students are reading this, you know I love you, but it was rough! Just a lot of conflicting personalities in the room. Individually each student was fabulous (Yes all of them), but once they got together hoooo boy. I cried once. In class! That hasn't happened since Zeballos!
I remember when I was a student in grade 7 and grade 8. Both years my class made the teachers cry. In grade 8 I am pretty sure the teacher went on stress leave because we ended up having a ttoc at the end of the year. Maybe this grade 4 class was my karma. Anyway....it was tough...it was still great...I will make a couple of posts of cool things we did.
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