Zoo Eyes

I love Summertime for its lazy days and late nights. One thing we love to do as a family is go to the zoo. We have zoo passes and the zoo is only about 10 minutes from our house, so we go often.

On our most recent trip to the zoo, I found some eyes. Not all in obvious places. I find it fun to look for different shapes and take excessive amounts of photos of them! One time, while on the ferry, I took my kids on a circle scavenger hunt. Absolutely anything we saw in the shape of a circle, we took a picture of. The kids had to find the circles, and I took the pictures. Now, they are a bit older, I share the camera :)

Here are a few of the pictures I took of eyes at the zoo.

Granville Island

I am taking a summer course for teachers this week. The topic is curriculum writing. There are about 65 teachers from all over BC, and a few even came from Alberta. Today, we got to go on a field trip (in busses, even!!) to Granville Island in Vancouver. We were given an assignment which involved taking pictures. Of course, in true Sarah fashion, I took way more pictures than I needed to. I took over 100... If I had been on my own, and not given a strict time frame, I am sure I could have easily doubled that number!

I thought I would share a few of the photos I took. I'm not going to write about them, I'm just going to post them. You can form your own stories to go with the pictures, if you would like!

 

 

 

 

Blessed

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I was on the job hunt, again, and how I was striving to trust God and believe that his ways are always higher than mine. The post is HERE if you want to read it.

Last year, when I applied for a teaching position, I got a job. Not exactly the job I was applying for, but a position, nonetheless. One of the areas I have been teaching this past year is Kindergarten music. It has been so much fun, and I have been given daily rewards of hugs and smiles and children willing and ready to learn the new music I teach them.

A few weeks ago, a part-time Kindergarten classroom position was posted. I applied for this new position, and I got it!!!! Looking back at this year, (my first year back after going on maternity leave, 10 years ago) I see how teaching the K music classes this year has begun to prepare me for teaching my very own K class, next year. If I had been given full time my first year back, I would have survived, but I'm sure it would have been more overwhelming than my 26%! This smaller position that I am currently teaching has allowed me to fully enjoy each class that I teach, without feeling overwhelmed at jumping back into a working role. I have been able to ease my family into the idea of me returning to work because it was not full time. My kids have never known me as a working mom. Now, they have felt it for a year and they like it. I feel so blessed to be able to teach at the school my children attend. My kids don't see me at the school as a "teacher" any differently than they did when I was at their school so often as a "mom".

I got to meet the new Kindergarten kids, yesterday. I don't know which ones will be in my class, yet, but I will get to teach all of them since I will continue with Kindergarten music.

As this year wraps up, I am excited about all that has been accomplished. I just wrote the Kindergarten Music report cards and as I looked at each name, I smiled. Each one is an individual and a gem. One thing that I have been wishing all year long is that I could have spent more time with these kids. My wish and prayer has come true. Next year, not only will I get to teach all 70 kindergarteners in music, I will get the joy of spending 2.5 days a week with a group of 15-20 of them that I can call my own!

I feel very blessed.