For the Love of Children |
I have loved baby dolls my entire life. I used to get mad at my parents when they stepped on my invisible students, while I wrote on my chalkboard in front of my "class." I brought home stacks of worksheets and old book orders on the last day of elementary school, because I knew they would be perfect for playing school and the teacher's would just throw them away. I would fill them out over the summer and then correct them for my students. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" was ALWAYS answered with "a teacher." It never faltered. I always envisioned myself teaching Kindergarten. That changed my senior year of college when I took an Early Childhood Administration course. I knew I wanted my own preschool. I worked for a few years after graduation, gathering experiences and inspiration. In 2006, I opened Inch By Inch Preschool. A small preschool, which has gone through many changes over the last eight years as I have changed and discovered more about who I am and what kind of teacher I want to be.
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For the Love of Nature |
I grew up with farm animals. I grew up knee-high in the frog pond. I ran through the field shooing away bugs to save them while my father hayed the field with his horses. I built forts in the second floor of our barn with hay bales. I looked for fairies and trolls in the woods. As a teenager I attended conservation camp and weekend survival camp. As an adult I love camping and exploring outdoors. It is important to me to allow time and space for these types of experiences for my own two boys and the children I work with.
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