April’s Teaching Blog

Blogging is definitely a “new” endeavor for me.  I read blogs from time to time (mostly celebrity gossip…Pinkisthenewblog.com has been a favorite of mine for a while), but I have never written my own blog.  Guess ive never really thought that I was that interesting.  I love to share crazy stories about my class and this gives me a whole new audience besides my husband and my friends!

Last year I taught kindergarten in Wilkes County, NC.  It was my first year teaching and it was the best experience I could have imagined.  I really liked the girls that I taught with, the administration was pretty easy to get along with (a rarity I hear) and my kids were just so excited to learn and come to school.  The school was in a pretty poor area of the county, and most of my kids were struggling with home situations as well as adjusting to the new idea of coming to school everyday and following the rules.  We had a blast the whole year and I honestly can say that I miss them dearly.  I went back to visit a month or so ago, and hugged all of the ones I saw and was so happy to see that they were just as happy to see me.

Around Thanksgiving that year, Garry and I found out that I was pregnant!  We were so excited but I was worried how I would balance being a first year teacher and raging hormones.  Luckily it all worked out, my kids were so excited to see my growing belly, and I was blessed with a wonderfully understanding assistant who let me vent when I needed to.  The school year ended, and Ava was born on July 29th!  Best day of my life. 

Garry and I decided that we would move back to the Triangle to be closer to our families and that I would take the year off to take care of our baby girl.  Its been a hectic 6 months, and around October I started feeling cut off from the academic/working world, so I decided to apply to graduate school at UNC and was accepted.  So here I am, blogging about my journey up to now. 

I miss teaching, and I cant wait to get back to it next year.  I don’t know where I will be teaching yet, but I do hope that I am teaching Kindergarten.  I consider literacy to be my “specialty”, although only teaching one year hardly makes me a specialist.  Watching kindergartners come in to my classroom not knowing any of their alphabet, rarely having held a book and then turning into readers makes the job all worth it.  Watching the proud looks on their face when they read the book with one word on each page is not just a sense of accomplishment for the child, but a huge sense of accomplishment as a teacher.  I look forward to all the knowledge I am going to gain through this class and hope it brings me one step closer to being a literacy “specialist” in my next classroom!

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