Fully realizing I might be the only one who’s like this, I have a confession to make: Sometimes I buy professional books that I don’t really need at the time.
I can help it, but I usually don’t want to. I’ve spent most of my career as a third-grade teacher, but perusing my library reveals all sorts of material for both early childhood and upper-grade teachers.
Ha! Over the last few days, though, that stuff has come in handy!
Because of self-quarantining, I’m spending a lot of time with my granddaughters, both of them emergent pre-readers. One is in kindergarten, the other pre-K. Not exactly my typical students, but hey–my certificate says I’m supposed to know how to work with them.
I hear kindergarten teachers everywhere rolling their eyes and saying, “Riiiiight.”
After a few days of stumbling through some okay lessons, I remembered that I have a professional library just waiting for a time like this! This morning I blew off the dust, did just a bit of digging, and lessons from years ago when I was in college came rolling back. Hey, I can do this. Maybe not with more than two kids at a time, but I can do this.
How do I know? Because this afternoon before she left, my oldest granddaughter said, “Grandpa, you’re a pretty good teacher!”
Yeah. I melted.
Yet There is Method 
Great to get a compliment like this. Wonderful that you had bought the book.
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It was, and I’m glad I bought it, too!
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I have so many books that I’ve bought “just in case”. Maybe I’ll get to the end of the pile!
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I doubt I’ll get to the end of mine. One of my biggest surprises was pulling a book from the shelf and finding that I’d made notes in it, all the way through the book! For the life of me, I don’t remember reading it. Oh, well.
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Love my collection of professional books and can relate to the feeling that ¨I may need them someday.¨ Wonderful for your family that you were brave enough to select a few lessons and give them a try! Continued good luck…
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Books are just one of those things I can’t see myself not having. You never know!
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Oh my collection of “just in case” books has indeed come in handy. Yours definitely did, and a delightful recognized it. You earned that melt, enjoy it.
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It was a wonderful melt! 🙂
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We can all do this! Thanks for the inspiration.
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Thank you!
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