Things to know:
*I go to school and teach 10 kids in person each morning, then zip home to teach 9 kids on Zoom each afternoon.
*all our specialists are virtual
Our host this week for the Poetry Friday round-up is with Bridget at Wee Words for Wee Ones. I appreciate her and every one of you teachers and mothers out there--are there any nurses among us? And when is Poet Appreciation Week? 😉
*This poem draws from the humble litany of Cheryl Dumesnil's "Today's Sermon".
This poem captures your week, the frustrations and joys. I love your use of rosary as the counting off of things. I do this each day, counting mask, backpack, lunch, water, coffee... My pile going in and out of my car, school to school. God bless your daily duties.
ReplyDeletePoems like this are so important. Later they will remind everyone of this unusual year students and teachers and all that was learned inside and outside of lessons.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate YOU, Heidi, and your messy perfectly imperfect hybrid teaching experience captured in this exceptional poem. *cheers to the givers, in whatever form they take*
ReplyDeleteHeidi, this poem feels sacred to me...that Saturday sabbath that we all fall into hoping to recharge enough for Monday morning. The details of your week are a prayer and I've prayed it many times. Thank you for this service. I just want to say, amen.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that you're putting your teacher life on display for us all to be both astounded and grateful, Heidi. My granddaughters are both back "in" but not all the time. One describes her art teacher on a screen while an aide hands out materials for whatever they are doing that day. I've had those thoughts and prayers for you all this year! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant structure for this, Heidi. I really appreciate "here is all of May in a bag." To me, that sums up the valiant nature of the attempt and its ridiculous futility --as if you could possibly capture all of May in a bag, yet still we try...
ReplyDeleteSo. Much. Truth.
ReplyDeleteI especially embrace the Saturday sabbath and the Sunday meditation. Yup.
All I can say to this is yes!
ReplyDeleteI love the scripture-like structure. Each stanza contains a relevance with which I can resonate. Great poem.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful poem-like prayer, and I especially like Sunday, and its penciled plan, thanks Heidi!
ReplyDeleteAs a remote-all-year Kindergarten teacher, "but here is all of May in a bag" completely resonated with me. I've only got one chance -- materials pick up day of the month -- to get it right, or else I'm cooked. Love the form this took, Heidi! And bless you for your work this year. It's been a doozy, right? Can I get an AMEN!
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely! I love the form you've used, and your stanzas convey so much about your hybrid teaching experience with such an economy of words. Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting us be witnesses to the sheer effort that has gone into teaching each and every day this year. I think we should all write poems like this and compile an anthology that captures the lengths teachers went to this year to provide the best experience we could to our students.
ReplyDeleteI, too, like "here is all of May in a bag."
ReplyDeleteHad a great time celebrating Dash's birthday today (we are doing our Mother's Day celebration next Sunday -- we can't actually double up effectively, which you noted with Mothers, Teachers, and Nurses :-))
Heidi, I apologize for missing this back in May but so glad that resurrected it for this week's PF in June. Life is a wild ride of virtual happenings so I do appreciate your hybrid preK bulletin.
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