Fourth Grade Gossip.

I have been thinking of this moment since I left my field-base block for my undergrad:

I am in a fourth grade classroom twice a week for about four hours each day. On Thursday, I sat with a group of the girls in my class during lunch. We were talking about usual 11 year old girl stuff and then - the boy talk! The gossip about which girl had a crush on which boy, tragic break-ups, and flirting tips (naturally, all of the tips were for me to follow). They shared their secrets with me and, for the first time, I started to think about how much fun teaching an older grade would be.

I have had my heart set on teaching second grade for as long as I can remember. However these fourth graders are already tugging on my heart strings and I've only been in their classroom for a collection of less than twenty hours.

I can already see the enormous impact that these students are going to have on me as a future educator!