When Friday

I am linking up with Blog Hoppin today for What Friday. I am so thankful that today was Friday. I have an amazing class this year. They are absolutely precious! However, I don’t think I have ever felt this yucky during the first few days of school. I need the weekend to recoup!

Today, we are talking about What Friday:  What do we like to teach?

I started teaching 9 years ago as a first grade teacher. I LOVE first grade! I loved teaching kids how to read, one of my favorite things to do. At the end of the year, my principal asked me to loop with the class to 2^nd grade. I taught second grade for two years and it was so much fun. Then I was asked to go to third grade. I taught here for third grade and learned so much about myself and how to be a teacher. It was during this time I taught a class that of third graders that taught me so much about loving and learning.  This class still holds a very special place in my heart. In third grade, I was also a gifted educator and worked to enrich the academic content of my instruction. I then went back to second grade for a year.

At the end of that year, my principal asked me to move to kindergarten. I can’t even put into words how excited I was. I couldn’t wait to get started. Had you asked me if I would be teaching kindergarten 4 years ago, I would have said NO WAY! But now, I can’t imagine teaching anything else. Teaching kindergarten is so exciting each and every day. I can’t wait to get up and go play and learn with my precious babies!

What subjects do I like to teach? Well, I love to read. And I love to teach others to read It drives my husband insane because I can get totally engrossed in a book, no matter how many times that I have already read it. My Kindle Paperwhite is awesome!!! However, my 5 year old son is such a mathematical thinker. He loves math and science, and has amazing spatial reasoning skills. I am learning to love teaching math and science because of him! We always have an experiment of two around the house.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!