my teaching certification is in middle school science and high school chemistry...while I've only taught high school...every spring I think about the life that my elementary school teaching college must be having...class parties, thank you gifts from students, day long recesses...while I am grading final exams just hoping I'm not going to have to call any parents to tell them that their daughter has failed.
but then just in the nick of time we host Camp Invention, a summer science camp for 1st through 6th graders. while the children are fantastic and the curriculum is top notch, the children and the days are exhausting, and i thank my lucky stars for my high schoolers.
but camp invention does give me the opportunity to be ridiculous as demonstrated below:
