I am one of 8 Kindergarten teachers at my school. We will say goodbye to two of my coworkers this week. One is retiring and the other is moving. Tonight we are having a girls' night at a fun local restaurant to say goodbye to the one that is moving. Our retirement celebration is later this week. I will really miss both of these gals next year. It has been a fun year and we all work extremely well together.
This has been my first out of 19 years teaching, to teach Kindergarten. The first half of the year was fantastic. The 2nd half, not so much, but thats a whole 'nother blog post altogether. You'll know it when you see it. It will be entitled Special. One of the reasons why this year has been so fun is because of the teachers with whom I work. They are the cutest, happiest, bounciest people you'll ever come across which would be incredibly annoying if they didn't also have the ability to be decidedly snarky, which I love. I call our hall Happy Happy Kindergarten Land. Imagine lots of confetti, glitter, and all things sparkly surrounding those words and you get the picture.
We really are a world unto ourselves. I seriously hardly ever see any other teachers, which is pretty remarkable considering the fact that we have enough teachers in our building to manage 800+ students. Our lunch schedule begins at 10:30 so I'm done with lunch and already gone before any teachers from any other grades show up in the lounge to eat. So the 8 of us K teachers eat together, plan instructional units together, steal extra minutes on the playground together, cover each other's classrooms if someone is late, complain about our students that literally make us want to rip out our hair, and talk about other people who aren't nearly as fun as us. (remember the snarky part?)
So this week we say goodbye to two of us. Its just as well, since next year there will only be a need for 6 K classrooms and we'd rather have to say goodbye on our own terms instead of someone else's. It's been a fun year.
Except the Special part.
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thoroughly enjoyed reading about your days! you have always had a gift for writing and expressing yourself. If you accomplish ALL of the things on your list we will call you SUPER WOMAN for sure.
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