- Danniel applying Captain Underpants to every situation
- Titan's eyes getting big and bright when something clicks in his head
- Hugs from Bella every time she see's me
- Seeing Kaydence and Ashlynn working together because they're best friends
- Strongo making any comment he can to get the class to laugh
- Timmy and his obsession with pineapples
- Brisen demanding that she is my favorite
- Grading tests/assignments and getting them done in record time
- The Copy Room. I don't know why but I like it SO MUCH
- Alex going off on tangents that make no sense just so that he doesn't have to do his work
- Abby showing me pictures of her favorite dogs and telling me all about each breed
- Tyler's opera singing (which was performed on a daily basis)
- Chatting with Rowley and Thacker (who are some of the best teachers I've ever met)
- Learning about things that I'd completely forgotten about (I re-learned so much about our solar system it's ridiculous)
- Caitlyn being very verbal about the fact that I am also her young women's leader (I too was pretty verbal about this because she is adorable)
- Getting to move fifth graders to the next fluency book because they'd improved so much
- Cody and the strange things he would bring me on while I was on recess duty (i.e. a maze he'd made himself that I had to solve, weird black goop, etc.)
- Seeing my sister Megan and her best friend Eva at recess. I'm friends with a lot of first graders now
- The plethora of treats in Thackers class
- Being called Miss. Anna (it's so adorable to hear little third graders say)
- Giving Dev and Abbey a hug every time the walked to and from their trailer classroom while I was on recess duty
- Realizing that these fifth graders are getting a way better education than me, learning things that I didn't learn until ninth grade
- Moving third graders from multiplication to division
- Having a bunch of kids thinking that I'm super duper cool when I'm really just an awkward nerd posing as an adult
- Having kids think that I'm crazy old and wise because I'm eighteen
- When you explain something a certain way and the light just clicks on and the kid finally gets it
- Helping kids feel confident in their abilities, no matter what level they may be at
- The general insanity of my sixth graders I worked with
- The innate kindness in my sweet third graders
- The almost exhausting curiosity of my fourth graders
- Feeling like I was actually impacting kids lives for the better
Things I will not be missing:
- Having to be at the school by 8 am every day
- Cleaning lunch tables
- Seeing the bits of food at the bottom of the rag buckets I used to wipe the tables
- The "rotten egg mixed with vinegar" smell of the lunchroom cleaning products
- Recess duty in the freezing cold
- Only having thirty minutes to drive home and back for my lunch break
- Did I already say cleaning lunch tables?
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