I hate you, I love you…

There are so many dimensions of being an elementary principal. Pieces I love, pieces I hate. Tune in for a brief description of each.

Likes

1. Thinking of new ways to greet kids! We’ve done toe-taps, elbow bumps, and pinky shakes!
2. Learning through growing and eating! Tower Gardens for the win!
3. Walking through the Peace Path with kids
4. Saying yes
5. Subbing when we’re short staffed (shhhh!!)
6. Walking into a classroom and a student asking me for help (just please no fractions)
7. Receiving almost 400 smiles a day, and giving 100 more
8. Reliving a story and sharing a moment, there are so many!
9. The shared look between the secretary…you know them, there are many.
10. Graduating our students to the middle school

Dislikes

1. Opening fruit cups at lunch. Someone stop juice leaking madness!
2. When kids cheat at tetherball. You can’t grab the string!
3. Puddles. #kidmagnets
4. Kids throwing up in front of their classmates…being sick is bad enough!
5. Sticks, snow, and rocks. Cheapest and most lethal playground objects.
6. Seeing my teachers long sticky note to-do lists
7. Disappointing people who count on me, somedays there just isn’t enough time
8. Losing sleep worrying
9. PARCC testing
10. Saying goodbye

What do you hate/love about your position? Leave me a comment below!