Twenty-seven
days.
Relationships
have begun.
Learning
who we will share our year with.
Likes,
dislikes.
Fears,
dreams.
Assessment,
So. Much.
Assessment.
Recorded
and administered.
Conferring
notes poured over.
Twenty-seven
days
Doesn’t
seem like that much.
Until you
look back,
And realize
how far you have come.
My mind
reaches back,
Thinking of
those students
Who have
just moved on.
Comparing, worrying.
Comparing, worrying.
Looking
over the writing
For this
new group of seventy-five,
Soon to be
seventy-six.
And my
heartbeat speeds up.
Run-on
sentences,
Capitalization
and spelling errors.
Confusion
on a narrative versus an essay.
Mini-lessons
failing to be applied.
And then,
You breathe.
This is
where we are.
We’ve
already come so far.
It just
takes time.
After all,
it has only been,
Twenty-seven
days.
I’m joining up with Ruth Ayres for her weekly link-up, Celebrate This Week. Check out all of the posts linked up at her blog HERE. Thanks for starting this, Ruth!
