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| This is about the most boring calendar of all. |
February has ended, Praise Be to God!
February was also a scary month for me as a teacher.
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| Amazing changers of history |
For a month with Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays, and being Black History Month, February was always the longest month when I was teaching.
Factor in stinkin' Valentine's Day (oh, how I hate Valentine's Day Parties at school), February was awful. There was so much that could be taught, but limited time. Time, never enough time, it seemed.
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| Oh, how I hate school Valentine parties. |
By this point of the school year, several levels of learning
needed to be reached by my students.
Needed? Absolutely must happen!
Some students seemed to reach a glorious epiphany about the end of January, and all the math, spelling, reading, and learning came together in an explosive “AH! HA! I UNDERSTAND!”
There would be current of electricity connecting student to student, until the room was alive with this burst of comprehension. Man. I cannot tell you how that felt to me as the teacher. Words cannot do that justice.
But, then…there were other students who had hit a wall in December, and never seemed to come back all the way from Christmas Holidays. The first days of January were turning back into the early days of September. They and I would spend the rest of the year playing catch-up.
Some did catch up, but some did not.
So glad February is over.
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