Your Activity Didn’t Go As Planned? Welcome to Teaching!

There will be times when your activity feels like a Pinterest fail. Your vision won’t match the reality for miles and while one child may be totally into it, another might be eating your props (yep, the latter was absolutely Bianca this morning). Guess what? That’s life. This happens in classrooms every year, all around the globe, and you have to learn to just try your best and be flexible. So if you’re all bummed out about the less than favorable outcome of a particular lesson, cut yourself some slack. Know that it’s ok and that you are not alone.

Today my child enjoyed an apple snack while the other got her sensory play on. Clearly, each had a very different level of interest in the planned activity, which involved stamping apples into different color paint in order to make art for the letter Aa. You win some, you lose some. Welcome to life.