It was my last year of teaching. Just a few days before Christmas break, one of my students, who we will call Sarah, came into my classroom early.After a few minutes of friendly chit-chat, I asked, “So why are you here so early?”Sarah smiled. “It’s because I have a...
One thing I could count on with every class of students, no matter what grade I was teaching, was that I would receive gifts at Christmastime. Of course, the younger grades usually produced more presents, but I always received at least a couple gifts in the older...
Christmas is always a time of great excitement in the classroom. It is, in fact, hard to keep the minds of students on their lessons during the last two weeks leading up to the Christmas break. Of course, part of this excitement is simply because they will have a...
