I might actually hurt Danielle if she reminds us one more time how many days we have left. She says it in this chipper voice with a big smile on her face like it's something we should be excited about. I don't know one person on my team who is excited to leave school. Sure, today was not the best day, but it doesn't make me want to leave.
Today Ms Moulton was still stressed out about the whole testing situation, which was just not what I wanted to deal with on Monday morning. City Year is in charge of running a specific literacy assessment that the school and City Year, Inc. uses to measure growth and success. I was supposed to do this test on my two focus list students today, but when I got there this morning, Holly obviously had other plans. I still did it, but it took some real craftiness on my part, to say the least.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful until final circle. Danielle and Erica wanted to talk about saying goodbye to our students, which is a tough subject, but not so tough that I should have started crying immediately. For goodness sake, I wasn't ACTUALLY saying goodbye. I don't know if it was the fact that Ms. Moulton was in a bad mood or what, but I was a mess. We had to talk with one other person about our concerns and such and when I turned to Sam, it was just downhill. I got her started and by the end of the conversation, it was just a bunch of blubbering and tissues.
One joy from the day was when I completely embarrassed CM. CM is the smallest, palest, whitest, cutest kid in the class. It doesn't help that he's super shy with a speech impediment, which makes you just want to scoop him up and take him with you. On Saturday at the math and science fair, I was in my regular clothes, so a lot of the kids did a double take when they saw me. Add this to the fact that it was Saturday at school, we weren't in our classroom, and there were parents and older siblings around, CM all of a sudden became very shy and wouldn't even make eye contact with me when he walked by on Saturday. You would have thought there was a million dollars on the ground by the way he was looking at it. It made me laugh on Saturday, but I knew I had to say something to him today. I called him over, saying I had to ask a question. When I asked him why he wouldn't even look at me on Saturday, CM turned as red as my vest and was suuuuuper embarrassed. It might have been one of the cutest things I've seen all spring. It made me smile and I just hugged him. CM is a role model student and super cute. Definitely one I'm going to miss.
Anyways, to end on a positive note, here are a couple student profiles of some of my favorite first graders...
Carson- Carson is the student I mentioned above and ALWAYS a joy to have. He is super cute, speaks with a speech impediment and is going to be a true Bostonian. He's even developing a little bit of an accent! He can be really shy when you first meet him (he cried on the first day of school he was so nervous), but can be quite talkative when you get him started and his brothers tell me his a trouble maker at home, which just makes me laugh. Carson is such a loving student. He's so shy that he doesn't come up and give me hugs like some of the more outgoing students, but if he sees someone else getting a hug, he'll definitely jump right in and grab one for himself.
Elizabeth- Elizabeth is top of the class and a first-grade superstar. She is an only child from two extremely devoted and involved parents, one of which is a teacher. She is above grade level in every single area and has no problem grasping third and fourth grade concepts. Socially, she is a little quiet and reserved. She'll probably never be the "popular" girl, but she's got friends and definitely isn't an outcast. She's always bringing in books signed by children's authors or pictures from a family vacation. She's one you can always count on to correctly answer the question or even just being doing what you ask. Elizabeth is going places and is going to be quite a success at NHCS.
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