My Most Influential Teacher As A Child

Mrs. B was both my 3rd and 4th grade teacher (thanks to looping!) and I still look back fondly on the two years I spent in her class. I remember the Mixed Up Mother Goose Rhymes show we performed for our parents. Reading Bunnicula…Creating a Zest soap commercial that we inserted into a “dramatic” book report… Singing “Fifty Nifty United States” (which I can STILL sing in alphabetical order AND have even taught to my own students)…Dressing up as a Famous American and reciting the poems we created about their lives…Making reports about an Indian tribe and a state (For me-Iroquois and Wisconsin!)…The I.C.M.M Club (I Can Manage Myself)….Those are some of the memories I will always cherish. 

Her way of teaching and her innate love for children drew the students toward her and made every day exciting. During 3rd and 4th grade, I just couldn’t wait to go to school each day! 

Mrs. B always showed great energy, love and sensitivity towards me as well as my classmates.

As a teacher now, I know how much heart and hard work is required to be an effective teacher and to touch the hearts and lives of your students . I admired her when I was her student and decades later, I still do,