Teaching Stories

After seventeen weeks teaching, I have some really good stories! Almost everyday I come home with at least one hilarious thing one of my forty students has said or done. Here are some of my favorites:

- We've been having lots of trouble with the bathroom. I had a student need to go to the bathroom, and asked me if he could. I told him, "You need to wait until the girl gets back from the restroom then you can go. He replied, " But, I'm a boy!!"

- One of my students asked me why Jon & I didn't have children yet. She told me she didn't understand why we were married & didn't have any babies. She pleaded with me to have a baby. Two days later, I was standing at the door telling them goodbye. She gave me a big hug & said "Bye, Mrs. Warren!". Then, I see her little hand reach out and touch my belly, she said " Bye Baby".

- I caught one of my students sucking their thumb, and called her name then gave her a signal to get it out of her mouth. She raised her hand, and I called on her. She said, "Mrs. Warren, the I suck my thumb cuz when I was little all I had to do was suck my thumb and rub my belly button. It make everything better, and it still do."

- One afternoon, my phone rang & I just let it ring while I was teaching. One of my students stood up out of his seat & said, "I get it. (pretending to answer my phone) 'Hellur, This Ms. Warren'"

- One of my students explaining why he & his brother fight, "Well, you see, I have alot of violence in me"

Nine Billion...

That is a huge number. It doesn't take much to help. Watch & see what you can do....

First Year of Teaching

I went to a meeting recently where I was told essentially ~ You should be feeling pretty bad about this time of year about your job ~ Its a really hard job. Its even harder when you have no support.



She showed us this graph. Almost all of the first year teachers were in the disillusionment stage. One of my collegues leaned over to me in the meeting & said "I don't know if we'll ever come back up." Somedays, I wonder that too. Teaching has been the most draining, exhausting, challenging, frustrating, and emotional thing I think I have ever invested my time in.

I hope that in March I will be "rejuvenated" ~ time will tell. Needless to say, I kinda wish I'd seen this chart before school started :)

Aunt Meggy Teaching Nattie to Play the Piano

We were blessed to be able to drive home to get away from work & College Station for a bit this Thanksgiving. We were really excited to see our niece, Nattie, who we hadn't seen in months. Pictures only last for so long :)

(Speaking of pictures ~ one of my students saw a picture of her before the holidays and yelled out to the whole class, "Ooooh! She like a princess in her own world!".)

Over the holiday, I taught Nattie how to play the piano! She's got some natural talent :) What she doesn't have now ~ I'm sure her Daddy will teach her.



She was thrilled to realize that it made noise! I know Granna & Grandaddy are just going to love that I shared that knowledge so soon in life!