Janet, who is retiring after teaching for thirty-three years, was looking for someone(s) to share her vast book collection with.
Caitlyn, who just graduated with Micah from NCU, was looking for books for her new classroom.
Micah, Caitlyn, Janet and I loaded Micah and Caitlyn's cars with books yesterday afternoon! And I know two very happy people . . .
Janet had three more sets of shelves equally packed . . . 
And this was AFTER she had give over 300 books away!
WAY ONE: When your daughter bakes cookies, bring in one that's still warm and give it to one of your favorite teachers. Even better is when said teacher eats in front of the entire class saying how good it is!
WAY TWO: Bring in cookies for the three teachers your daughter met at "Family Fun Night. That brought three more smiles!
WAY THREE: Tell your supervisor that you are glad that she's your supervisor and that you're staying with her because you volunteered in the classroom of the teacher who could have been your supervisor had you moved buildings and that your current supervisor is a MUCH MORE better choice!
I walked in to the Y yesterday with less than a stellar attitude to teach my Adult CPR class, mainly because I had one student who was unable to get the pre-class blended learning portion on her e-mail address. She not only contacted me multiple times, but my supervisor, front desk staff and office staff! It wasn't us!
Fortunately, she supplied me with an e-mail address on Thursday that worked, she completed her on-line portion and showed up for class thirty minutes early! I'm sure she had questions for me, but I needed to go find the tests. I finally contacted my supervisor at home. They were in a place I would have NEVER looked, but I was finally ready to go five minutes before class started!
Once class started, all was well and we had a fun morning!
Someone at school cut out a variety of red, white and blue stars and then let the students write messages on them for the staff. Here are some of the stars I received:
"Thank you for helping us with lunch and recess. You are very kind. P.S. You are my favorite lunch and recess teacher." B, 3rd grade
"Thank you, Mrs. Zupke, for helping me with math, and my story works text. You helped with writing too." A, 5th grade
"Dear Mrs. Zupke, Thank you for everything like reading or the things you do for my sister, too." L, 5th grade
"Thank you for being very kind hearted and awesome. There's no teacher that I've ever met who's been so kind and loyal to everyone, and I love your smile and every time I see you I feel happy." F, 3rd grade
"Thanks for helping me this year with reading and some math and I will go to your daughter's bakery." K, 5th grade
"Thank you for always being there for us at recess and someone to talk to at recess." B, 3rd grade
I can not tell you how thankful I was this morning when I walked into the clinic for labs, to be able to say, "Yes, you are drawing labs for three different doctors at ONE time: Dr. Jain, Dr. Lee and Dr. Monteguedo." I was even more thankful to discover that the labs the doctors ordered only required four little vials of blood!
Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m., I received an e-mail from our principal, offering me one of our two 5 hour tutor positions, but it was a busy morning and I didn't respond.
He was waiting for me when I went outside for fifth grade recess:
"Did you get my e-mail this morning?"
"I saw you sent one, but I decided to get groceries rather than read e-mails."
"I want to offer you a five hour tutor position."
"Excellent. I accept, but you know what I really want to say?"
I got a questioning look, so I proceeded. "Eastview (the other location I was willing to go to) is only a mile from my house and with the price of gas it would be much closer to work, plus I've probably volunteered more hours at Eastview than I've worked at OHE (Matt went to Eastview K-4 and Micah K-1), so I wouldn't get lost there (the buildings are the same exact layout, but flip-flopped), and I know most of the staff, plus Kim Ritchie is still the school nurse!" He is now looking at me with a totally shocked/surprised look. "But I accept. I want to work at OHE."
Now, if I could just keep my mouth shut, that would be good, but I had to say, "You just wanted to beat Tabor (the Eastview principal) to the punch!" To which he laughed and I FINALLY shut up!
And I now have a 5 hour/day tutor position rather than 4.75.
