Once upon a time there was a Kindergarten teacher. She was an eager, spritely young educator with a zest for creativity and a motivation to stay current and engage her students in all of the newest and coolest tools available to them. But then...Kindergarten.
Now Kindergarten is a magical time of exploration and music and singing and play. It's a year of laying the foundation for all skills to be built on, of sparking a love of learning, and of tremendous academic and social growth for Kindergartners. It's also hard. Harder than anyone who has never taught it could ever imagine. Kindergarten is an entirely different beast than other elementary grades. It knows no social etiquette or boundaries, nor how to walk in line. It struggles with how to open its own juice box, and knows not how to sit and listen to a story. It's a year of repetition and patience, of chaos...and of lengthy iPad lockouts due to excessive failed login attempts with the most basic passcode that was ever in existence. Kindergarten is hard.
And so she pressed on. Then one unexpected day she happened upon a new land. A land referred to by most as Second Grade. This is the story about how the dreams of one (not quiet as young as she once was) teacher began to come true.
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