I love my job. I love it. This is my 19th year here at White Oaks and I love the school; I love the kids. I love to see them succeed – that’s my favorite thing. And I love kindergarten best of all. I used to work as an assistant in PE but I love kindergarten best because you come in and they’re really little babies. Then they just look so grown at the end of the year. They can’t write their name; they don’t know numbers; they can’t count; and they counted to 100 for us this week. You see the growth probably, to me, like no other grade. I liked being a PE assistant because I got to know the entire school, but every morning Ms. Christman and I are bombarded with at least 15 kids coming in for hugs. They come in to get hugs and whatever they need, that little boost to go. I love everything about it. We had one little girl in tears this week after her mom came to lunch and left. So I told her, ‘You know Ms. Christman’s your school mom and I’m your school grandma’ – I moved up to grandma. I said, ‘We’ll take care of you. You’ll be okay.’ We do whatever we need to do…hugs, Band-Aids.
I love dressing up, as you can see. I take every opportunity to dress up. This is Black History Month and Dr. Ireland, she’s been dressing up. I told her I have a couple outfits that I’m going to wear and we got a picture together. We had Book Character Day, and Ms. Christman and I were Fly Guy. We had wings and big eyes.
I mean, I’ll tell you – my husband will tell you, my granddaughter will tell you – my life is this school. It really is. I love getting up and coming to work.
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