The Decision

Well...here it is, my first post.  As I was talking to my sister, Ashley, on the phone today after school, I had an epiphany; I should write a blog.  I was telling stories of my day to her and I had her rolling with laughter!  I have always enjoyed telling stories and I have been told many times that I should write down the stories I have about my classroom, but I have never done so...until now.

As you may know, I am a 3rd grade teacher in Rio Rancho.  I am currently in the second week of my second year of teaching.  I already have such good stories from my kiddos (that's teacher talk for class) that I just HAD to start writing.  Now I want you to understand, in no way, shape, or form is this a blog to help anyone become a better teacher.  I do believe that I am very good at my profession but I am in no position to tell anybody how to teach or organize their classroom.  This blog is simply to get my stories out there.  Children are hilarious and clever if you listen.  I chose to listen and find the humor in just about every situation.

I have a class full of 25 wonderful children this year.  We have 14 girls, 11 boys, and 1 class pet; a gecko named Steve; remind me to tell you that story later.  I am going to chose to not use my kiddo's real names, I will refer to them by names that hopefully I can remember and keep each student straight in my mind.  However, being as it is 11 o'clock at night and I have an 8am meeting tomorrow, I am going to chose to close my computer right now.  I've introduced my blog, hopefully given you something to look forward to, and have given myself motivation.  Hopefully I'll keep up with this.  Tomorrow's story:  how we named our class pet Steve and how Steve was misplaced in a 5 gallon terrarium.  That's all for now I suppose, goodnight.