Coulda, shoulda, woulda...
This blog (just like my first ever first grade classroom) coulda been a lot better than it has turned out thus far. I shoulda spent more time on it throughout the year. I shoulda read more, written more, thought more, reflected more, studied more, rearranged more, organized more, analyzed more, questioned more, answered more, and just plain old "hoed out and throwed out" more.
But as is often the case when people undertake something extra, even something as cool as this project, something they are really interested in and committed to...my "day job" (and even sometimes my personal life - GASP!) got in the way of me doing all the more I wished I coulda and thought I shoulda. What I learned along the way is that although my classroom arrangement may not (yet) be perfect, my students are happy, confident, thoughtful, reflective, independent and accomplished thinkers, readers, writers, math wizards, scientists, friends, and human beings. And really, what could be more important than that, at the end of the school day?
Yup, I woulda liked to have done more with my classroom makeover this year, but then what would I have to look forward to in 2009-2010?!
This blog (just like my first ever first grade classroom) coulda been a lot better than it has turned out thus far. I shoulda spent more time on it throughout the year. I shoulda read more, written more, thought more, reflected more, studied more, rearranged more, organized more, analyzed more, questioned more, answered more, and just plain old "hoed out and throwed out" more.
But as is often the case when people undertake something extra, even something as cool as this project, something they are really interested in and committed to...my "day job" (and even sometimes my personal life - GASP!) got in the way of me doing all the more I wished I coulda and thought I shoulda. What I learned along the way is that although my classroom arrangement may not (yet) be perfect, my students are happy, confident, thoughtful, reflective, independent and accomplished thinkers, readers, writers, math wizards, scientists, friends, and human beings. And really, what could be more important than that, at the end of the school day?
Yup, I woulda liked to have done more with my classroom makeover this year, but then what would I have to look forward to in 2009-2010?!
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