I share your enthusiasm both for reading and avocado toast - except no scallions for me but yes to tomatoes, salt and pepper, and the occasional egg. And fresh grated Parmesan. Also, I spent World Read Aloud Day reading Knuffle Bunny, The Duckling Gets a Cookie, and Mr. Poppers Penguins to elementary school students. It was magical!
Forgive me for being the Scrooge of the Soiree - my memories of Junior High School (now called Middle School) are not universally rosy; and forgive again since my examples are not alphabet-specific. Anyway:
Mr. Hicks, Social Studies teacher - His favorite punishment meted out for misbehavior: To write 20 times (by longhand) the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. One has to wonder how many budding historians emerged from his enlightened tutelage.
Miss Major, my sixth grade homeroom teacher - Her favorite corrective, for some reason inflicted almost exclusively upon boys, was to have the scarlet-faced youth stand at the front of the room and sing a solo, in the key of Humiliation major.
That being said, since I love history and sing in A Capella groups, perhaps they were on to something ... NOT!
To a fellow gym and reading lover! My memory of first grade is when my gym teacher showed us how to do a somersault on the bar and her hair fell off, landing on the mat in a heap. We did not know her Farrah Fawcett locks were a wig. She put it back onto her head and never said a word about it.
My son (15) and I are reading aloud together. He has dyslexia and struggles.I love it because it is time I can spend with him and am hoping eventually he will learn to love reading. We’re reading Catcher and the Rye now.
I learned to read in first grade too, and my teacher didn’t believe I was reading The Boxcar Children on my own. Then she put me to work tutoring other kids in reading! 😳
Ah, first grade and learning how to read.... Of course, it's preschool and kindergarten now where kids learn to read. Still, it's such a wonderful thing when a child learns to recognize those mix of letters as words.
And thanks for the shout out, Amy. I appreciate your kindness. :)
I share your enthusiasm both for reading and avocado toast - except no scallions for me but yes to tomatoes, salt and pepper, and the occasional egg. And fresh grated Parmesan. Also, I spent World Read Aloud Day reading Knuffle Bunny, The Duckling Gets a Cookie, and Mr. Poppers Penguins to elementary school students. It was magical!
Forgive me for being the Scrooge of the Soiree - my memories of Junior High School (now called Middle School) are not universally rosy; and forgive again since my examples are not alphabet-specific. Anyway:
Mr. Hicks, Social Studies teacher - His favorite punishment meted out for misbehavior: To write 20 times (by longhand) the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. One has to wonder how many budding historians emerged from his enlightened tutelage.
Miss Major, my sixth grade homeroom teacher - Her favorite corrective, for some reason inflicted almost exclusively upon boys, was to have the scarlet-faced youth stand at the front of the room and sing a solo, in the key of Humiliation major.
That being said, since I love history and sing in A Capella groups, perhaps they were on to something ... NOT!
Hi Amy!
To a fellow gym and reading lover! My memory of first grade is when my gym teacher showed us how to do a somersault on the bar and her hair fell off, landing on the mat in a heap. We did not know her Farrah Fawcett locks were a wig. She put it back onto her head and never said a word about it.
My son (15) and I are reading aloud together. He has dyslexia and struggles.I love it because it is time I can spend with him and am hoping eventually he will learn to love reading. We’re reading Catcher and the Rye now.
I learned to read in first grade too, and my teacher didn’t believe I was reading The Boxcar Children on my own. Then she put me to work tutoring other kids in reading! 😳
Ah, first grade and learning how to read.... Of course, it's preschool and kindergarten now where kids learn to read. Still, it's such a wonderful thing when a child learns to recognize those mix of letters as words.
And thanks for the shout out, Amy. I appreciate your kindness. :)
Love this Amy! Just wrote about how much I love the written word and am trying to write a book right now! Thank you for your words always!