You know you teach second when...

1. Your whole body smiles as a kid who read 11 wpm at the beginning of the year reads 70 wpm for you on a fluency probe.

2. Your heart breaks when the attendance clerk pops her head in to tell you that said student is withdrawing.

4. You want to skip up and down the halls and shout from the rooftops that a kid that was two years behind grade level is now on grade level.

5. You want to pull your hair out when your kids in April decide they forgot the morning routine and just sit at their desks silently. DO SOMETHING PLEASE :)

6. Half of your classroom stories make your friends and family die laughing. The other half they just don't get.

7. You are so jazzed in August about school starting... then school starts and you remember you have beginning of the year second graders... (they grow so much and you forget so easily...)

8. You spend some of your free time catching up on kids pop culture so you can make culturally relevant spelling sentences for the kids. (Hannah Montana USED to be cool! Duh!)

9. At the end of a crazy day you still tell all your kids you love them and give them a hug on their way out the door.