This year…
It’s only one week into the new school year and there’s already a lot to do. New students with new personalities and new procedures and new problems that need new solutions…. but what I have found in my first week back is that who I am in my classroom isn’t new. What I like to do with my kiddos isn’t new. The energy I get from them and the fun we have is what I needed. It reminds me of why I do this.
As I begin this new school year, I have been extra energized to put a spotlight on the kids who are sitting in my classroom, to show them that they are in a place that they can shine and that will recognize them when they do. So I’ve been doing that…slowly but surely, I’m recognizing the kids who ‘bring it’ every day.
Winner, winner!
One of the positive outcomes of COVID was the new approach I started taking in the structure of my class periods. Instead of coming in and getting right to work, we come in and take 5 minutes to have fun together. We play a game, compete a little bit, sometimes as individuals and sometimes as teams.
