Sunday, December 26, 2010

Motivation

It is "holiday recess" (to be politically correct)...
and since we are in the midst of a blizzard I sat down to work on my lesson planning for the following week.

I opened my plan book to find a small piece of notebook paper that I quickly stuck in there while packing my stuff to leave for vacation.
The paper has a note on it that one of my students wrote and put on my desk before she left on our last day of school. It reads:

"Dear Miss Rosen,

I hope you have a Awesome Christmas and a good vacation!!!!
I'll see you when we get back (which will be in 2011) but I'll miss you!

Sincerely,
Student"


This little letter made me realize that although I desperately need this week long break from job-I really do love my hectic, challenging, exhausting, time consuming, wonderful job. And I am actually looking forward to seeing my students next week and listening to their stories from Christmas and vacation!

Also, while reading this note I am even more pleased that she used correct friendly letter format, spelled 'which' and 'sincerely' correctly, and has two paragraphs! We do need to work on using 'an' before words starting with vowels

! I definitely look at everything through a teacher lens now!

-Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing

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