Summer is almost here......

Summer
      The books are packed up, the students have left, and the hallways are silent. This time of year is filled with teacher training sessions, luncheons, and phone calls. It's been an amazingly tough school year, but it's all over and I'm glad it happened. Teachers transform into new creatures during summer break. We don't have no where to be and no scheduled classes to teacher, so goodbye early 5:00am mornings. We are creatures of habit and lost when those warm rays hit our faces. 
      This time three weeks from now I'll be on the beach watching to waves crash. There will be no lesson plans or papers to grade. I'll miss it all, but the summer months are mine and I'm not willing to share that time with any extra responsibilities.



Summer Vacation

The halls are silent as can be
The ocean is all teachers can see
Posters and anchor charts are thrown away
Teachers still don't know the way

Laughter is going out of the classroom
The chairs are waiting on that impending doom
Stored away in a dark place
Not to see a solitary face

Mid July is the time where we start counting down
To see when our students come back to town
Lesson plans are started with red ink
Is this activity going to be the missing link

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