The Teacher's Alphabet

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! In lieu of this week to celebrate the amazing teachers everywhere, I have created the Teacher's Alphabet. Thank you to each and every teacher out there!

 A: A/C: you keep the A/C cranked down to the lowest temperature it will go... which is usually comparable to the Artic... never mind that it is below freezing outside, and you are wearing your jackets and mittens inside. That hot flash will hit at any moment while you are teaching, so you have to be prepared. 

B: Bulletin Board: at the beginning of the school year, you create the most magnificent looking board, by the end of the year you are hoping the tape can hold up what is left of it! 

C: Cold: I’m not sick, I’m not sick... you keep repeating to yourself, because having to write sub plans would be way harder than just coming in and suffering through it. 

D: Dry Erase Markers: these are a coveted gem in the classroom. Finding these at a garage sale is like hitting the jack pot for teachers. If you really want to get on the teachers good aide, buy them in all different colors. 

E: Eat in 10 minutes: it’s amazing how quickly a teacher can eat. They can eat their food, grade papers, have a parent teacher conference, and use the restroom all in a 30 minute time period. 

F-: Free Food in Lounge: everyone loves receiving this email. It is amazing how quickly the food will go once it is sent out. 

G: Glamorous: how you feel walking into class each day in the younger grades, and they all compliment how beautiful/pretty/ wonderful you look. Somehow though on the day you don’t have time for makeup, they are all very concerned that you are sick. 

H: Happy Hour: where you will see most teachers on the last day of school. 

I: Inside recess: listening to Whip it Nae-Nae on repeat...need I say more? 

J: Jeans Day: the day of the week that you look forward to the most... besides Friday. You feel like a whole new person when you are able to wear jeans to school. 

K: Keurig Coffee Machine: every lounge needs one of these installed! Coffee all day long is okay right? 

L: Laminator: I mean honestly, can you really laminate too many things? 

M: Money: you aren’t sure where it goes each month... you just know that you have some awesome lesson plans from Teachers Pay Teachers. 

N: Names: teachers come up with some nifty ways to remember names at the beginning of the school year, because they know they will be quizzed everyday by the students for that first week. Good luck if you have 4 of the same names in your classroom! 

O: O.C.D: what every teacher has in their classroom. The classroom can be a mess, but the teacher knows that the books on the shelf in the back corner have been rearranged and are no longer in alphabetical order without going over there. 

P: Pinterest: seriously what did teachers do before Pinterest was around? Plus wanting to incorporate the cute artsy craft into your lesson, but realize you will be broke after buying all the supplies. 

Q: Questions: after explaining in detail what the students are expected to do ( with pictures, an example, and pointing it out to them in the book) you still have at least 2 raise their hand and ask “what they are doing.” 

R: Routine: as a teacher you have to be prepared for your routine to go off track. Whether it be due to a Fire Drill, snow coming down outside, the electricity going out, or little Timmy ralphing on the floor. Teachers have to be prepared for anything each day. 

S: Snow/ Ice Days: keeping your eyes glued to the TV or phone waiting for them to announce your district is closed. Once they announcing running and cheering around the house like you just won the lottery! 

T: Thirst: once that first child asks to go and get some water, it is like we are in the Sahara Desert and everyone is dying of thirst. 

U:  Unidentifiable: when the students are cleaning out their desks at the end of the school year and they find an unidentifiable object. You use it as a inference lesson, hoping someone can figure out what it once was. 

V:  Vacations: we break our school year into countdowns for vacations. On the first day of school the countdown until Thanksgiving break begins. The countdown we get excited about the most is Summer Vacation. You ask a teacher how many more days until summer and they will give you the day, hour, and minute until that bell rings. 

W: Wet Shoelaces: you pray that it is water on the wet shoelaces that you are having to tie for the hundredth time. 

X: X-Large: x-large stands for the stacks of paper that accumulate during the day. In the morning your desk starts off nice and neat and by the end the day you are lucky to find your keyboard. 

Y: Yelling: Yelling? I am not yelling this is my teacher voice. I have also been known on occasion to use it outside of the classroom. 

Z: Zzz: as soon as you crawl  walk through your door at home, you completely pass out. There is nothing like a Teacher tired at the end of the day.