This last week of school was definitely an incredible and rewarding experience for me. I was able to help in assisting both of my third grade teachers in cleaning up their classrooms for the summer and believe me, it was such a pleasure to make this last week a little bit easier on them. I really liked just being a helping hand in some way and doing whatever they asked me to do, even if it meant taking down all of their decorations that were up all year long to be thrown away. I have helped a couple of teachers at the school clean out their rooms and it is always such a hectic time, to get so many things done in a very specific manner...but it was so incredibly worth every minute. I'm not necessarily like going to sit here all day long and write out everything that they needed me to do for them, but I will say that I felt so grateful to have been a part of their school year. It was amazing to have their kiddos help me out with taking stuff down that would no longer be there and really just excited to be doing something other than sitting around watching a movie in class. There were moments when I'd be in the classroom by myself and having some quiet time to focus on what the teacher asked me to do, I also had to remember to keep people from coming inside when they were not present. Luckily, I did not have anyone come up to me in the classroom while I was in there working on stuff that needed to be done.
The following days were filled with continuing to take down more decorations inside of the class & putting away each of the students chrome book computers back in their respective places. It was so fun for me to do it several groups at a time, and not have so many kids coming up to me with their computer to have cleaned inside & outside, but keeping all of them in class order. I really like just being able to keep things clean and where they belong so that the next time, we would need them-- they are exactly where it needs to be. I absolutely loved watching my third graders have fun with activities they had going on throughout this week and played a lot of games, to keep them busy so there wasn't anyone that needed something. Almost everything else got finished by Wednesday and felt so great that I was able to accomplish so many things, in a short period of time!!! But I'd totally love to do it all over again if there was any possibility of that happening at some point, but we will have to be patient and see what next year has in store for us.
Thursday Morning:
Luckily, my third grade students had field day in the morning so that I could keep working on all of the many things I needed to get done for them. It was really quite nice to not have any kiddos back inside the classroom and just having almost two hours to focus on other things, was such a relief for me. I was able to get all of the words removed from the wall and put into individual piles, with not having any idea if they needed to get put somewhere else. I also removed some more things off the walls and set them gently down on things that I easily thought needed to be there. I did get a chance with getting to neatly organize many of the papers/worksheets that were left laying around all over the place, which I would have kept doing till the end of the week-- but obviously it must not have been necessary of me to continue working on. It was definitely a relaxing time for me to get all of those things done that needed to be taken care of, which I could have easily continued to do for this teacher but they mentioned they would try to get as much of that cleaned out later that day.
Highlights From This Week:
- Got a banana, chips ahoy cookies, and a Pepsi soda to take home with me for lunch on Wednesday afternoon after having worked so incredibly hard for a couple of hours!!!
- Got to spend my lunchtime hour with Miss B and visit with her... which was amazing!! It was so incredibly sweet of her to do that for me and I'm grateful to call her my friend. She ordered me an amazing sandwich from Jimmy Johns and loved every bite!!!
- Had some treats with my third graders outside for a little bit and enjoying as much time with them as I could possible before the days this week was over.
- Signed a lot of my third grade students yearbooks and getting some random kiddos, come up to me to sign theirs as well. It was so much fun getting involved with the excitement of what would be my final time of signing anymore yearbooks for kids the rest of the week.
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