Help is on the way

For anyone who has children or for those who want them:
Parent Teacher Conferences are exhausting for the teacher! I didn't have any grouchy parents or anything like that, but today I was at school from 9:30-7:15 PM for PTC. All of my parents are happy and have no complaints...much to my relief. But I cannot imagine what PTC would be like if there were parents who complained and had nothing nice to say. Always remember to talk nicely to the teacher. It doesn't matter what you think happened or what didn't happen, act in a calm manner and hear the teachers side of the story. If you aren't nice to the teacher then your kids probably won't be either.

The Lord has been good to me. I am blessed with parents who are ready and willing to help. Almost all of my parents asked what they could do at home to help their child improve. This made me extremely happy becuase with parent involvement the students success will only rise. Also, a couple of weeks ago in my weekly letter home I asked parents to donate art supplies (I have nothing in my classroom for art except glue and construction paper). Today I had a parent donate a couple of bags of art supplies (pipe cleaners, little colorful balls, eyes, etc). Another parent the other day sent some construction paper in and told me they are going to the store soon to buy some more art supplies. I was WICKED excited about this! I had another parent say they would work on getting a white board for the classroom to replace the chalkboard!

Not only do I have the parents of my students helping me, but I also have home and school. One of the leaders (Patti) invited me and another teacher over for supper one night. She asked me what I would like in my classroom so that maybe home and school could help out. Well, I told her a couple of things, but something that is close to my heart is books. My classroom has around 50 books. She then told me of the previous teacher having around 500 books for the classroom! I told her I had no idea where they were but I would look. After asking around the principal told me that the teacher said she wasn't using them so she wanted them moved out of the classroom!!!!!!!! My mouth dropped and my eyes opened wide. I could not believe that this teacher had so many books but didn't want to use them and so decided to give them to the school library. While I can borrow books from the school library they are still not books for my room alone. Anyway, I told this to Patti and she said she was going to try and give some of AWR's (Adventist World Radio) books to a used books store where they would give her a credit and I could go and buy books for my classroom! I was thrilled to hear her say that. So, slowly but surely I am building the class library back up.