emotional moments

Today has been one of those days that I would classify as a "mom day", one of those days that everything makes you cry and you are just overly emotional. There is no apparent reason for me to feel or act this way today, but I do.

Last week I taught my students about the importance of goals and then also the importance of writing down your goals. As an assignment they had to write short term goals that they could achieve by the end of the school year (June 17)... here are some of the ones that got me (some tears and some laughter):

-Have a BFF
-Try and become more popular
-Breathe right
- Make friends
- Have a nice, good goodbye party
- Have/go to more sleepovers
-Be more nice
-Don't talk back to adults
- Don't draw on self
-Write a small book or play

Where is the point in life where we stop setting our goals at friends or a simple nice goodbye party? What would happen if we went back to that? I think I would like to see.

My students also finished their reports and presentations on diseases for health class. Also emotional. First reason being that when I came they could barely form a paragraph, and most of the papers I got back today were professional looking 5 paragraph minimum essays... from 5th graders. They are finally starting to get it :)Two of my students presented diseases that they themselves have. Watching their eyes as they presented and the fear and hope that they held was difficult to take in. The so badly wanted their peers to understand how their lives were, but the were also so afraid of rejection. The students following them stopped refering to people without the disease they were presenting as normal and began saying people without _______. It was amazing to watch them support and uplift eachother. Woohoo for maturing fifth graders :)

I am loving my class, but we are all very aware that spring break is a mere 3 days away :)