Spring is Here, sorta...
Well, the weather around here doesn't exactly know what it is doing yet. One day it a glorious 75 and last night there was a freeze warning and my husband very sweetly covered me head to toe in an extra blanket while I was trying to sleep in. Thank heavens for him :)
I just came back last week from a wonderful conference in Atlanta, Georgia entitled, "The Young Child with Special Needs". I love a good conference with knowledgeable and interesting speakers and this one had it in spades. There were were developmental pediatricians, speech pathologists, nurses who specialize in particular areas of special needs and nutritionists. There were questions and answer sessions. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and since my husband came with me we were able to spend the evenings going to various restaurants and just spending time in Atlanta. It was a nice break. My husband, Chris, decided to once again walk on the wild side and went zip lining. I'm rather glad I was at the conference when that happened. I was just as happy to see the film footage and not see it in person.
(dinner at "The Spence")
Now it's back to the real world where there are last minute IEP's to write, transition meetings to attend and the ups and downs that transpire in teaching the children I am happy to be teaching. Of my 7 students, 5 will be transitioning on to various types of kindergarten classes, only two will stay in preschool another year. I will miss the others, but it's time for them to be taught by other teachers who will see them as kindergarteners and not young preschoolers.
On the home front, our grandchildren are growing and thriving, thanks to their parents. The youngest is a happy, chortling child with very expressive eyebrows and the eldest is pretending he is a pirate and causing an uproar in his preschool class by saying, "stinky diaper" and making all the children have to put their heads down on the table because of the ensuing giggles :)
