My Very First Blog Post

A lot has changed in the past 8 months.  On December 12, 2011 I graduated Summa Cum Laude a semester early from The University of South Carolina. On December 17, 2011 I married my high school sweetheart, Davin McRoberts. I began teaching at Woodruff Primary School days prior to graduation for 27 precious four year old. On March 1, 2012 I began another long term substitute position at The Early Learning Center for 20 three year olds. I could not have asked for a better experience to help lay the foundation for my career as an educator. It is amazing how much three year olds and four year olds can teach you about yourself and life in general. 

Before school was out for summer, I was hired as a first grade teacher at Houston Elementary. Above is a picture of me when I signed my contract at the district office! I could literally shout to the top of my lungs with excitement! Since I was in Mrs. Sanders' first grade class, I knew I was destined to be a teacher. My interest in teaching grew tremendously after my service learning and Teacher Cadet experience my junior and senior year at Spartanburg High School. I received the Teaching Fellow, Ella Poet, and Life Scholarship and attended USC. As an undergraduate in early childhood education you are assigned to a cohort. I was a part of Cohort 4 and created lifelong friendships with other future educators. Through Teaching Fellows and Cohort 4, I met one of my very best friends and partner in crimes, Caroline Bruce. She is getting married on July 28th and I can hardly wait to be her bridesmaid, as she was in my wedding back in December! Back to my feelings about being a first year teacher. Thank goodness that I was fortunate enough to inherit a lot of books, supplies, and teacher resources from my mom and the previous teacher that I am replacing. Now for the classroom theme...So, ever since Davin and I started talked about marriage I began to think about what my last name would sound good with, as a teacher. I have come up with "Mrs. McRoberts' Monkeys." The overall theme of my classroom will be The Jungle, so that I can incorporate more animals and animal prints! I am going to use this blog to update you on whats going on in The McRoberts Jungle.