Hello!

   I graduated from UW-Platteville with a Masters Degree in Early childhood Education. I have taught my entire career at North Crawford School….AND, in the kindergarten classroom for over 30 years.  ***Which is hard to believe, as I’m pretty sure that I’m only 29 years old!!!

   Kindergarten is the BEST grade in the whole wide world to teach. The children are awesome and the parents are so supportive.

   I live on a farm with my horse.   I have two sons. My eldest died when he was 12 years old from CGL (Leukemia). My youngest son is attending MATC in Madison. No grandchildren yet…..but remember, I’m only 29 years old!    

 

 

 

 

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When I am introduced as a teacher, I am usually asked what I teach. When I say “Kindergarten,” I generally hear a flat “Oh!”

   I have never been certain whether this is an expression of pity, sympathy, disgust, or perhaps disinterest. Always I wish I had time to tell people something like this: “Yes I teach Kindergarten!”

   Where else would a handsome and very young man put his arms around me and ask, “Do you know that I love you?” Where else would I tie so many hair ribbons and belts and daily get to see a style show of pretty dresses and shirts? Where else could I wear the same outfit day after day and be told each time that it is pretty? Where else could I walk up and down aisles and have warm hands touch me?  Where else could I eat a soiled piece of candy from a grimy little hand and not get ill? (I have to eat it because he watches to see that I do!)

   Where else would the future look as bright as it does amid an energetic group to whom nothing is impossible? Where else could I guide the first letter formations of a chubby little hand that may some day write a book or an important document? Where else could I forget my own aches and pains because of so many cut fingers, scratched knees, bumped heads, and broken hearts that need care? Where else could I forget taxes and even “the state of the nation,” because little Johnny isn’t grasping his abc letters as he should and other methods must be tried?

   Where else would my mind have to stay so young as with a group whose attention span is so short that I must always keep a “bag of tricks” up my sleeve? Where else could I feel so close to my Maker as I do each year when, because of something I have done, little children learn to read? Yes, I do teach Kindergarten, Mr. and Mrs. America….and I LOVE IT!!!