To my 4th graders,
In 35 hours you will be lined up outside of our classroom door waiting for me to give you directions about your very first task of 4th grade. You are at a new school, with all new teachers, a new principal, and some new kids too. I met some of you on Thursday and you told me that you aren't nervous. Well, please give me some of your bravery because - will you let me be completely honest with you for a minute? - I am so, so nervous. I've been doubling up on prayer and Excedrin Tension Headache since Thursday as my to-do list for you persists in its waxing and waning. I have been preparing to teach for the past two years and I have been preparing to teach you specifically for the past 4 weeks. There is not one detail of our classroom or my instruction that I did not think and rethink trying to decide if that detail served your best interest. But there are 21 of you and, holy crap, there is so much at stake.
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Author4th grade teacher. Writer. Justice-seeker. Encourager. CrossFitter. John 11:40. Archives
July 2017
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