It isn't often that I write about my classroom. I love my job! I love teaching part-time with the MOST AMAZING partner ever! Susie grows me. She and I make a great team. We've done the team-teaching thing for over 13 years now. We've taught together WAY longer than we've been on our own. We love seeing these kids transform each year. This year's class is going to challenge us far beyond our limits. I guess that's where God wants me so He can intervene. I keep telling Lauren, where you're weak, He is strong. I am guessing God wants ME to hear this lesson, much more so than Lauren cause boy do I need it!
We've had a 3rd grader suspended (Really...not even kidding) for something awful...threatening the teachers. (I was kind of glad it was Susie's day not mine ;0) ) We have had kids licking the glue sticks, smacking each other in the butt, our non-English students telling us about threats to him and his twin brother from other kids in our class. Kids are gluing pieces of paper to their faces like mustaches. We've had family meetings because of crying spells that start as soon as we meet our kids in line. We've learned of divorces, parents killed in car accidents, fighting in the homes, couches and floors for beds, and the list goes on. The crazy thing about all this is these kids are for real! These are their lives. I realize there's nothing I really can do but love on them the best I can, do the best I can to teach them the rigorous material we're responsible for (even though 9 out of 25 can't read above the 1st grade level), and again LOVE them!!!
I've resorted to writing in Sharpie a little message each day because I find myself losing my mind daily. I start each day with a High-Five, Handshake, or Hug but am often worn out early in the day. I am also praying for each one of these kiddos before the day starts and wanting to go from desk to desk to pray specifics over them. I am asking lots of people I know to pray for our class, for me to have supernatural insight and wisdom to get through to them. It's going to be an interesting year and one that requires FAR more than me!!!
P.S. I'll never be a hand model!
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Wow, Kim! I've just caught up with all the posts you've managed to enter during the last month! So much going on, so much growth in the family! Major message in all of it, is the reassurance that He is taking care of us, an arm around our shoulder and always the reassurance that we will get through every challenge...because He is our strength. I love you so much!
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