109.  Our Classroom 2 Seconds Rule

It only takes 2 seconds to:

• Say hello
• Smile at someone
• Hold the door open
• Give a compliment
• Invite a classmate to sit next to you
• Make a diffference

~ Heidi McDonald

110.  Our teacher is always talking to her imaginary friend called "class."

~ Author Unknown

111.  Parent: Well, he never does that at home.

112.  "Please" and "Thank You" are still magical words.

~ Heidi McDonald

113.  Please excuse the mess, we are busy learning.

~ Author Unknown

114.  Portrait of a teacher who has survived: faculty meetings, grading papers all weekend, field trips, testing, report cards, bus duty, parent conferences, and fire drills.

~ Heidi McDonald

115.  Power of Yet:

• I can't do this.
• I don't understand this.
• This doesn't work.

Take a deep breath.  Go for a short stroll. Then, add a "yet" to the end of your sentence.  As in:

• I can't do this yet.
• I don't understand this yet.
• This doesn't work yet.

~ Author Unknown

116.  Recipe For Iced Coffee:

1. Become a school teacher.
2. Bring hot coffee to school.
3. Start multi-tasking and doing a million things.
4. Forget that you brought coffee to school.
5. Drink cold coffee.

~ Author Unknown

117.  School Teacher:  The only profession where you have to do more work to call in sick than if you just suffered through the day feeling horrible.

~ Heidi McDonald

118.  Silliness makes your soul smile.

~ Doe Zantamata

119.  Smonday: The moment when Sunday stops feeling like Sunday and the anxiety of Monday kicks in.

~ Author Unknown

120.  Some days, she has no idea how she'll do it.  But every single day, she still gets it done.

~ Heidi McDonald

121.  Sometimes I think about skipping school. But then I remember that I'm the teacher.

~ Heidi McDonald