Tuesday, September 22, 2009

2 Reasons Why I Love Teaching...

#1 The third grade teachers in my school teach rotations of science and social studies lessons. Today I had to go next door to teach my first science lesson to the other third grade classroom. When I was walking back to my regular classroom a student of mine said...

"Hey Mr. Christensen, how did your lesson go?"

My response to this completely adorable and totally off the wall question was...

"It went well buddy, thanks for asking!"

#2 I was teaching acrostic poems to my class the other day. Our first poem was an example based off of a story we were reading about penguins. P-E-N-G-U-I-N-S were the letters my class had to fill in with descriptions about the Antarctic birds. Later I had the class create a poem using their own names. I wrote my last name going down the white board as an example, and asked the students to help me think of clever, descriptions for myself. I told them I wanted to use things like onomatopoeia and alliteration. When we got to the letter "T" in Christensen I asked my students to help me. Their response was...

"T-alented, terrific, teacher!"

I swear I almost shed a tear! My students make me smile everyday! I love my job!

2 comments:

Camille Kemp said...

Mr. Cheistensen. Aaahh! I can't stand it. So funny/cute/weird.

Holli and Billy said...

That is precious!