Oh my, it's been a long time since I posted anything here. I had received a little pressure from my friend J.C. a couple months ago about this, but I blew it off. I'm hoping now that my family is settling into a routine with me working and the kids are back in school, my blogging will pick up : )
There's an excellent story to be told...a Maddy story, which seem to occur more often than not!
I first must give you a little background information, which Mike and I believe is NOT related to what Maddy did yesterday. Over the course of the past few years, basically since Micah was in 5K in Sauk Prairie, where he was in a team-taught classroom (2 teachers and 30 kids in one large classroom), Mike and I have been huge fans of the whole team-teaching concept (when done the right way). So, as the needs arose, Mike began talking with the elementary staff here in Johnson Creek about team-teaching, the benefits of it etc. In '08-'09 two teachers approached Mike indicating they would like to learn more out about teaming. Mike and the teachers set up a day to go to Sauk Pr. to see first hand what it was all about. The teachers came back very excited and implemented all kinds of strategies and techniques into their team-taught 5K classroom last year, which Maddy was in. As staff members began to hear more about how these teachers were really liking the experience and the students were benefiting in so many ways, Mike began to talk more and more with people. One of the examples he would give as to why teaming is good is that with two teachers actively engaged in teaching the lessons, if there is some sort of "crisis", Johnny has a break down, Suzy has a skinned knee, or someone gets a pebble stuck up their nose, the whole class does not need to come to a halt, rather, one teacher takes over the lesson while the other one deals with the "issue". It all makes perfect sense! Mike said these things to staff members, not to students or his own daughter : )
Anyway, I was at work yesterday, and remarkably, did not hear any word of Maddy's day until after school, which is weird in itself.
Long story short, Maddy is in a newly formed team-taught classroom this year in 1st grade (taught by two of my dear friends). Maddy came in from recess yesterday and went up to one of her teachers and said she had a pebble up her nose. I haven't talked to either of her teachers yet, but I'm sure they were like, "Oh great, the superintendent's kid has a pebble up her nose." I'm imaging that they check my schedule first, saw that I was at work, then called up to Mike's office. He said he'd be down, but that he was in the middle of something so it would be a bit, and that they had definitely not called the sympathetic parent. Maddy's teacher (which ever one was dealing with this "issue") told her that her dad would be down in a little bit to take a look. Upon hearing that Mike was going to have to come down from his office, Maddy covered up the nostril that was pebble free and began blowing out the blocked one really hard. Eventually, she blew that pebble right out!!!! Mike was called off and everyone's school day continued.
When I asked Maddy about this she told me that someone had KICKED the pebble into her nose!!!!!!! I later found out that that's also what she told her teachers. Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!
Team teaching is a great thing - especially if you have kids sticking pebbles up their noses!!!!!!
