WOW!!! Cindy this is awesome. 40 years of teaching. I wonder how many generations of her first students did she get to teach too. That would be a great history layout. Love your work......
Incredible!!!!!!! Such a super lo for a great celebration!!! Your sister sounds like a treasure! I'm such she had she had a positive impact on all her students!! Love this Cindy!!
Thanks for reminding me that teachers are nervous too! My 1st day of teaching 2nd graders I forgot to tell them my name! LOL! They discussed during recess how to find out what the new teacher's name was! Teachers of all grades should know her list! The only thing I would add is MAKE LEARNING FUN. TFS her successful career, I am sure her students learned a lot from her.
This is fabulous Cindy! I love the journaling cards, the 'then and now' photos, the distressing on the top and the alphabet along the bottom. Is the alphabet part of the paper?
Awesome LO & an excellent tribute to all of your sister's hard work teaching the leaders of the future. Teachers are among the most under appreciated groups of people in the world! Its nice of you to honor all of her hard work with such a wonderful LO!
wow - 40 years of teaching 1st grade - she is an AMAZING woman. And you Cindy, have created a beautiful keepsake - a family treasure (just like your Sister). Love her journaling the the great photos from the 70's and now - like your very own time capsule. GREAT JOB!!!
Scrapbook layout modeled after Stacy Cohen's "The Big Yellow Bus" in Creating Keepsakes Magazine, September 2010.
My sister Terry Michael retired this year after teaching first grade for 40 years. After student teaching in Morgantown, "Mrs.Michael" accepted her first teaching position at Easton school. When her husband Nelson graduated law school, she taught 37 first grade classes at Fountain primary school in Mineral County (WV). When asked about her years of teaching, Mrs. Michael said "Time goes by so fast when you're having fun".
Journaling: "This is what I would tell a beginning first-grade teacher" (copyright: Terry Michael)
"On the first day of school, assure children that it's ok to be nervous--the teacher is too! Things always look better by the middle of September. Smile a lot, but be firm. Pay attention--try NOT to miss the signs of problems. Never leave the children alone-too much can happen. Teaching 1st grade is never boring! No two classes are the same. No two students are the same. No two teachers are the same. ALL kids need love and somebody to listen to them. Know when a child really NEEDS your attention, not just WANTS attention. Roll with the punches. Be prepared-plan for twice as much as you think you'll need. Make sure you have everything you need before you teach a lesson. Have LOTS of Band-Aids and tissues. Take LOTS of pictures. Eat lunch with the other teachers. Share your problems and successes! Always have good things to say about the children-we all need praise! Prayer helps!! RELAX and ENJOY and SMILE."
Photos c1977 and 2010
I can't accept credit for the journaling either. Terry's colleague's made a wonderful program about her for their retirement party. I borrowed this from my Mother to make this page.
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