My Personal Mission

It's so hard to narrow down what my personal mission is! I think that what I would like my students to leave my class with is the feeling that they have worked really hard, pushed themselves to their educational limit and come out feeling that they have done their absolute best and learned to work together. One of the greatest things that my kids do at the end of the year is look back at lists and lists of things that they have done throughout third grade and it always amazes them to see what they have accomplished. What's more amazing, however, is when I then remind them about the other things that we have done like cooperative learning groups and activities, helping each other complete work, classroom stories and challenges we have solved as a classroom family....the things that they will really take with them throughout the years both inside and beyond the walls of the school building.