A teacher’s life is consumed with hours upon hours of activities. Our days are emotional roller coaster rides and we balance the many needs of our students with the administrative responsibilities that go along with the profession.
Hence, we tend to find joy in the little things…things that others might seem very ordinary and, thus, nothing to celebrate.
Take, for instance, these tables that magically appeared one Friday morning a few weeks ago…
Because I was hired so late in the summer, I got the furniture leftovers and had to make do with regular desks.
I don’t know if you’ve seen 9th graders these days, but they don’t exactly fit into those desks. Thus, I’ve been on the lookout for tables.
Alas, nothing ever appeared in the dead furniture store (my district’s depot for discarded furniture).
Until Thursday, when my friend, Barbara, stopped by.
She’d hit the mother lode but was soon told that she couldn’t have the pieces she was tagging with her name.
Say what?
She gave them a small piece of her mind for not marking the items as off limits and left.
Then, the next day (i.e. Friday), the items appeared, and my heart soared.
Students gave me funny looks as I pulled out my phone to take the above picture.
I think I made myself sound weirder when I explained that I was going to put the picture on my blog.
Yeah, that Mrs. AuburnChick…she’s one strange lady.
Whatever.
You’ve got to be a little strange to actually enjoy spending eight to ten hours a day with teenagers.
😉
I cannot tell you the difference that those tables made in my room.
The space totally opened up…thank goodness because I teach five tall basketball players. One of the guys is 6’7″, and yes, he’s a freshman. Can you imagine how tall he’s going to be when he’s a senior?
Here’s are the “before” pictures…
Here are the “after” pictures…
Needless to say, my students are thrilled with the room.
One of my gals made me laugh when she asked, “Mrs. AuburnChick, when are you going to stop changing things around?”
I told her that I would stop as soon as I got my room exactly the way I wanted, which will probably be right before the school year ends. It will be just my luck that I’ll have to change rooms next year and start all over.
So it goes with this profession, so it goes.
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