If you have ever been around a teacher in August, you know that our lives are a jumble.  We sort through everything in our classrooms, cleaning and organizing.  July’s brainstorming to find just the right ideas to reach our new students morphs into making those brainstorms reality in August.  You’ll see word processing, cutting, laminating, and creating going on in big piles everywhere.  Everything from designing writing notebooks to trimming and repotting the class plants happens in August.

I have been blessed with many friends, family members, and former students who drop by before school starts to help with the TRANSFORMATION.  Yesterday’s helper, our volunteer Mrs. Doris Shedd, brought a brief moment of peace to the bustle.  She carried a complete tea party to DES in her bookbag, including porcelain cups, a flowering teapot, and chocolate zucchini bread with sprinkles.  Doesn’t that just make you smile?