Ms. Parker

Ella and Jack both LOVE Ms. Parker.  She was Ella’s first grade teacher a few years ago and is Jack’s first grade teacher this year.  This year, Ella walks with Jack each morning from the bus to Ms. Parker’s classroom, gives her a hug, tells Ms. Parker about her day, asks her if she wants to buy Girl Scout cookies, etc., etc., before heading to her own classroom (she has to walk right by Ms. Parker’s class anyways).  Last year, however, there was no brother in Ms. Parker’s class to walk there and she did not have to pass Ms. Parker’s class on the way to her own, yet Ella still stopped into Ms. Parker’s classroom each morning.  Ella would actually pretend to put her backpack in a cubby and take a seat in the class each and every morning, acting like it was business as usual, even though she was now a second grader.  By the end of the first quarter last year, though, the principal instructed the students via the morning news that all students, from then on, needed to go directly to their own classrooms after getting off the bus.  Ella was heartbroken and had to resign herself to occasional glimpses of Ms. Parker in the hall. 

This year, however, Ella now has an excuse to drop by Ms. Parker’s class in the morning—she has to drop off her brother, right? (much to his chagrin)—and it’s not out of her way and, well, there’s a new principal at the school.  When Ella was in Ms. Parker’s class, she got on yellow (green-yellow-red behavior grades) only once during that year.  Jack has been all green all of this year.  Apparently, so Ms. Parker tells me, Ella keeps telling Ms. Parker during these morning chats that she needs to put Jack on yellow at least once, otherwise Ella will never hear the end of it from him.  :)  These two are funny—the sibling rivalry is strong with these two.  Well, at least they can agree on one thing: Ms. Parker is an awesome teacher.  That’s actually something we can all agree on.


{this is at a thanksgiving performance by the first graders at a barnes & noble the week before thanksgiving.}