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So for my New Years Resolution, I am resolving to read Loving What Is and to be super positive and grateful all year by trying to see the good in every situation and every person.
Here's my student-based what I love list:
- I just love how my students say thank you when a worksheet or manipulative is passed to them....I honestly don't know what planet these kids came from, but I'd like to keep them!
- I love how they just have to yell, "Bye Miss Battista!" at the top of their lungs when they walk out the door to go home.
- I love how excited they get when they see a great grade and a sticker on their paper.
- I love how amazed they are when they get to free draw, read WHATEVER THEY WANT, or play a game at indoor recess. (More on teacher guilt in another post.)
- I love how excited they are to apply what they have learned, and when I realize that I was the one who taught them something for the first time.
- I love how cute it is when they are mortified after realizing they just called me, "Mom."
- I love how my walkers and kids who go to the after school program literally have to be pushed out of the door to get them to leave.
- I love how excited they get when they get to add the "cha cha cha" to Happy Birthday when someone brings in cupcakes for their birthday. And I especially love eating the cupcakes! :)
- I love how proud they feel when they get to turn the Promethean Projector on, have a discussion without raising hands, or - GASP - go to the bathroom WITHOUT ASKING!
- I love how they are fascinated with pencil top erasers, pencil grips, dry erase markers, staplers, tape, and white out...but then again, aren't most of us teachers?
- I love how much our classroom feels like home and how I enjoy getting up
before the sun risesto go to work. - I love how responsible and self-sufficient my students have become. Some days I forget that they are just 8 and 9 year olds.
- I love how I get to teach them about Ghost Busters and Ninja Turtles, Full House and Uncle Jesse's "Have mercy," Babysitter's Club and The Boxcar Children, audio and VHS tapes, life before computers, cds, email, and cell phones, how to do the Cabbage Patch and Tootsie Roll dances, and what life was like in the "2000s" aka the "olden times."