Two reasons I adore the school where I am currently employed ( Read more... )

Jasmine: Mrs. Manion, do you have a dog ( Read more... )

So the concept of recorder karate is really easy; we assigned certain songs a belt level and if you pass them you get a string to tie on your recorder. Cute, right? Sarah is about to play and Naveen comes and interrupts us ( Read more... )

So I was talking about recorder and you play it with your left hand and my third grade class (finally?) noticed my ring finger and the ring on it ( Read more... )

This happened at after school duty, I was supposed to wait with the day care kids, and I have to RUN from my building to get there in time ( Read more... )

So, I'm walking my last class out the door (third grade ( Read more... )

I don't teach kindergarten except on early release days or if I'm subbing for one of the other music teachers. One day I was picking them up from gym ( Read more... )

So, at the end of the day on Wednesday one of my favorite students, a third grade girl named Hannah, was SOBBING randomly at the end of class. I sent everyone else on ahead and managed to calm her down (her friend had told her Hurricane Rita was in Houston RIGHT THEN and would be in Austin in three hours and it was even bigger than Katrina, I mean ( Read more... )