I Made More Money Working at the Gap...but It wasn't Nearly as Much Fun!

I am a special education teacher and work with kids with disabilities and kids without disabilities. I wanted to share a few things that help me ignore my very sad W-2.

In the first grade class that I co- teach the students decided to write about me. They wrote things like Mrs. G loves to laugh and have fun, she is pretty, and she loves to wear bracelets (I wear a jade bracelet and two red thread bracelets one for me and one for Sophie). I looove first graders they make me smile every day! They laugh every time that I say “your out of luck Chuck” when they ask for extra snack.

One of my first graders made me a Valentines Day card and wrote in it that he loved me. He is going through a hard time; he is just six and can’t figure out how to talk about it. I am hoping that he can find the words…..

A little boy that I serve who has a significant health impairment laughed when I called him handsome the other day, but he was sure to let me know that he was wearing cologne. To which I replied, “you’re not only good looking you smell good too!” He just smiled and said, “Yep, I’m the total package!”

Some of my kids have a hard time behaving in class. I love walking down the hall and having them smile with pride that the day is half over and they are still on green! (This is a big deal for lots of them, like Kermit said it’s not easy being green!)

I have a kindergarten student who winks at me to try to get out of doing his work.
My other kinder says “oh, my bad.” When he makes a mistake, Cracks me up every time!

I love the look on a kids face when they “get it” during math centers!

I was walking around the classroom during writing and one of the students was
daydreaming and I asked him what he was doing. He replied ‘gitn r done!” The other teacher and I almost died laughing!

I have two pre-k students with the same unusual first name, one is a little round guy with red hair and the other boy has curly hair and a ponytail. The red head loves when we sing the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. The other little boy hates it, says that it’s nasty, why would someone swallow a fly and want to sing about it!

Thanks for letting me share some of my gems with you guys! Hope they made you laugh!