Did you know that there have been 13,811 visits to this blog over its lifetime? I had no idea that so many people would visit my virtual classroom! This all started as a "cheaper" way to facilitate a classroom website. Plus, it was super easy for me to post, update, and upload pictures. Over the years, I've fallen in love with it. I hope that students and their families have enjoyed the somewhat regular postings.
On Friday, June 3, my classroom days came to an end. I officially logged ten years into the roll books of teaching. It is very bittersweet, and I know my body will feel a tug toward school supplies in August, bulletin board ideas over the summer, and lesson ideas that pop in ALL of the time, but Room 209 will have another leader at the helm come Fall 2011.
Over the last eleven years, I've taught fifth grade for 3 years, took off a year with my first son, one year in sixth grade, and finally six years in 4th grade. I've been in five different classrooms, two different schools. I've been downstairs, in a temporary building, and upstairs. I began my career with my one window looking proudly into the back of the school dumpster, and spent the last four years with a beautiful wall of windows overlooking towering pines and fuschia crepe myrtle blossoms. I guess my view upgraded!
In ten years, so many students came through my door. I am humbled that I got to spend time with each one of them. I got to be a speck of an influence in their lives. Each year around graduation, I think about that group that would be graduating from high school. This year it was my sixth graders. I sure hope they're basking in their accomplishments, but also pulling up their bootstraps and getting ready to conquer the next phase of life.
Thank you to each child, each family, each friend who has visited my classroom blog. Thank you for being a part of my extended classroom. Maybe this blog will have a new life in the future, but for now you can visit my personal blog for Cobb updates.... www.cobbfamilycommunicator.blogspot.com.
