This is my 3rd year celebrating Teachers Day. This is a day full of thanksgiving for teachers. Parents give lots and lots of flowers and students give some of the cutest cards. You definitely leave school feeling appreciated and loving your job. Students write cards asking you to be their teacher again next year and students from previous years expressing their love for you and how much they miss you as their teachers. Basically you feel LOVED!

This year, I am part of the event planning team. I am also the leader of events. So I was in charge of Teachers Day, which we combined with Thanksgiving. So we started the day with an assembly. At the assembly our principal shared about Teachers Day and Thanksgiving. And then we watched a video made by one of our talented teachers : https://youtu.be/e2LJ9RsgjPc. We ended the assembly with parents giving teachers flowers and students giving teachers more flowers. Basically you can never have enough flowers on Teachers Day :).

In the afternoon, we had a staff vs students volleyball game! I had brought back fabric balloon covers and we played balloon volleyball. It was chaos! But controlled chaos! Our students and teachers had so much fun! I love this part of the event, when students and teachers have fun playing together! It was so much fun to referee the games. The students had so much fun, they were asking to play again and again. I kept score but in the end the points didn’t matter, just the fun that was had!

By the end of the day I was exhausted. I was tired after the assembly in the morning, but after the games I was exhausted. Barely able to stay awake for the staff meeting after school. LOL. I am so thankful for such a great school, full of extraordinary students and outstanding teachers. Thank you Lord for this blessing in life!

The students’ cheering section (well part of it!)

Friday was a big deal here... It was Teacher's Day!!! The one day a year that teachers are appreciated here for all that they do! As a teacher our whole job is centered around the students. Each and every day we care and teach our students. It was so heart warming to be showered with love and appreciation from our students and parents.

Our entire morning was pretty much dedicated to performances by students and some of the teachers. My second graders had been practicing the dance (from Just Dance) for ABC by Jackson 5. They really enjoyed it and did such a great job performing it for the school. My roommate's class did I've got the Joy Down in my Heart. They were precious! It is so awesome to see our kids having such a great time performing the songs and dances we had been working on for the past couple of weeks.

1B performing I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in my Heart!

Also in the midst of performances our school and parents showered us with gifts. Our school gave us a $25 bonus for teachers day and a $5 gift. The parents gave the ladies scarves, I left with 3 silk scarves :). Thank goodness it's almost winter weather time. LOL. Also the parents of 1B at our school, gave all the teacher engraved pens with their name and a stand. It is so pretty!

I am truly blessed to be working at our school. Every day I am reminded how much I love these kids. Even though there are days that they drive me insane, I wouldn't trade them for the world! Happy Teacher's Day!

My students! My heart is so happy and blessed!