Welcome to My Journey

For more than 20 years I have been teaching children grades three up to seventh grade, until recently when I moved to a pre-kindergarten classroom.  Until then I had never really given the early years much thought, my focus was always on my job in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.  Moving to PreK brought me both excitement and fear.  I’m pretty sure I didn’t even sleep in that very first week, and my days were a blur.  As my nerves began to settle down, and I settled into my new normal, I began to embrace this new journey of learning about the early childhood age and stages.

It wasn’t long before I fell in love with my new position, but I knew that I needed to do more and to learn more so I decided to go back to school to learn about this new age and stage that I was teaching.  While going through my own college courses through American College of Education, I was able to make connections between what I was seeing in my own classroom to what I was learning in my college courses.  It has been exciting and eye-opening.  This blog is meant to reflect on what I have learned, continue to learn, and share my journey and learning with you in hopes that you can help the little ones in your life grow and thrive.