A few days ago, I went to
pick up the kids from lunch and walked in as one of the amazing women from the
lunch staff was having a serious discussion with them. Of course my first thought was “what in the
world did they do this time,” but it turned out that she was just talking to
them. As I stopped by the Room 114 line,
I heard Ms. J* telling the kids that they were lucky that I was their teacher
and so they should treat me well. The
conversation stopped when Ms. J spotted me, but I thanked her for the
compliment. That’s when one of the
sweetest comments ever happened. One of
my boys, David*, gave me one of his gigantic smiles and said “we always have
fun with Ms. Fiema.” I looked at Ms. J to
make sure that I had heard David correctly and then I looked back at David and
my heart just melted. David is a super
sweet little boy, but he can also be a handful.
David has the potential to be incredibly smart, and he’s almost always
so positive with his bright smile, so I can be hard on him. Because I’m hard on him, his comment meant
that much more to me. I realized that
David takes my expectations to heart and sees that at the end of the day, I do
just want to have a good time learning in 2nd grade.
We have a giant 100 chart
and as the whole class does something really well one student pulls out a
popsicle stick and colors the number found on the stick. Once ten numbers in a row are colored in, a
party is earned, and Room 114 earned a party yesterday. Since it’s been incredibly hot this week, we
had a popsicle party at recess. All of
the ups and downs in Room 114 were worth it as I saw the smiles on the monsters’
faces yesterday as they smiled for a picture and said “POPSICLE DAY!”
-Lisa
