Teaching middle school is oh so funny! I chaperoned a dance a couple of weeks ago and it the feelings of joy, awkwardness, energy, angst, excitement and drama were thick in the air. I just had a smile on my face the whole time. The thing that really, really shocked me is that the kids actually DANCED. We're talking 2 hours of jumping around and 'line dances'. They didn't play one single slow song and those kids seriously danced the whole time. It was amazing and fun.
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My students recently had the assignment to write about something tough that happened in their life that changed them for the better or helped them to learn a life lesson that they were grateful for after it was all over. Many of my kids wrote about their parents' divorce or the illness of a loved one. And then I got an essay from a student whose trial was when s/he got lost (with a group of friends) while doing a scavenger hunt on a cruise ship. The student was "totally bummed out" that they didn't win. Oh, poor, poor student! :)
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