Pitter-Patter.......

Words of the Day..... Pitter-Patter....n.,....quick succession of light sounds. Today, I will hear the Pitter-Patter of feet for the .....well, I'm not sure of the number....but THINK it's the 28th year. Notice I didn't say Little feet. My pitter-patters come in big sizes...like 9's,11's',12's, and yes, even 14's. And come to think of it....they rarely pitter OR patter. They clomp, stomp, and sometimes drag. I think I will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 260 of them arrive at my classroom door today. Sorry, Lupe, but that bright shiny floor may just be a thing of the past by 3:40 this afternoon. These feet will bring in all sorts of new attitudes, personalities, mindsets and eagerness, or the lack thereof, to my room. It will be up to me to mold them into students, answer their questions, change their attitudes, applaud their achievements and somehow during all the above teach them Spanish. We will have good days and bad. We will have words to learn, specific pronunciations to vocalize, verbs to conjugate, sentences to form and soon our disarray will become one Spanish speaking machine. We will sit on the infamous Hot Seat and do our orals with pride and a feeling of accomplishment. Along the way, we will also learn a few social graces, kindness and respect. We will not be critical, we will not be rude and we will not be demeaning. So, if you think a classroom is merely a room to learn a certain set of data, you are wrong. We are our own small universe and as such, we will treat each other as equals, who are all there for more than one purpose and those are to grow everyday in the knowledge of Spanish and mature into young men and women who have an awareness that we are one tiny part of a wonderful world. Come visit Room 11 on the Hill. Bienvenidos, mis amigos!