School Year End Adventures

   I closed out my year end with Christina's second grade class with a half day today. Yesterday we had a walking field trip to the Delta Fire Station on Snow Road with 19 students as 2 were absent and 2, Jimmy and Matthew, on in-school suspension. We were gone an hour and overall they followed directions and behaved though I had to hold Treshaun's and Mikell's hands for misbehavior. Tuesday was Field Day and Jimmy lasted 15 minutes before hitting 2 students and Mrs. Hinds had to take him to the office. It was only in the upper 50s and cloudy so the 2 hours went comfortably. Mrs. Lounds was there for a short time and was there today for the last 10 minutes to say farewell to her students. Yesterday to fill time I gave the students a Pre-Spelling test on new words we had not went over and I told them if any of them got them all right I'd give that student a bag of candy. Ethan R. did it and 6 others got one word wrong so I gave him 2 pieces of candy from Christina's closet and the others got one piece and today I gave him a bag of sour candies. We had a good week and still were able to learn and teach right up to 10 this morning when we had snack and the Wayward School movie until Gym. A teacher's job is never done and the learning by all of us continues on! There were no tears but a lot of hugs as we said goodbye for the summer and the freedom to learn anew.