Last Day of School

Thursday was the last day of school for my little 3rd graders. They were such a good class for me to have my first year of teaching. I had a lot of students come and go, but that transiency comes with the area I work in. My class consisted of mostly girls. I only had 7 boys. Every time we got a new student it was always a girl and they boys were always so disappointed. We spent a lot of the year laughing together but on the last day of school it was like being at a funeral. I was very surprised by how many students were crying. I never remember anyone crying on the last day of school growing up. We were always so excited for school to be out. I think these students are in a different situation here. They look forward to coming to school to have some kind of stability and love from their teachers and friends. They are going to miss that for 2 and a half months.

I asked one student particular why she was so sad and crying. She told me "You know when someone just cares for you so much... I am going to miss that." I am pretty sure she was talking about me. Ahhh. How sweet.

I also got two gifts on the last day of school. I got a rose from one little boy and one of my girls gave me a necklace. I am pretty sure it was a used necklace from Clair's, but she was so excited to give it to me. I told her it was absolutely gorgeous, took off my heart necklace and put hers on. She had the biggest grin on her face.

I will really miss my kids even the ones that were a handful! But I am going to enjoy my first summer off being paid the whole time!!!

The Boys (the kid in the front in the white shirt was my classroom exterminator, he kept our room cockroach free because Mrs. Smith doesn't do bugs!!! )

The girls crying (they were so sad to leave thier friends and favorite teacher)

Today we had our last staff meeting of the year. We ate at this restaurant called Cili's. For the last month I thought we were eating at Chili's and someone had sent an email with a typo. I had never heard of the restaurant Cili's. I even googled it and couldn't find anything about it. Hence I thought it was a typo. Well turns out Cili's is a very nice restaurant at Bali Hai which is a golf course on the strip here in Vegas. The food was fabulous, but the atmosphere made me really miss Roy. (1 more week and I get to see him!) Anyway here is a picture of some of the other third grade teachers and me at the golf course. I will miss working with them, and hope I get along as well with the kindergarten team next year.Mrs. VanMeter, Mrs. Salas, Ms. Johnson, Mrs. Smith