Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is going to be a day of emotional ups and downs for me! I will experience happiness (for my kids that are graduating), sadness (for my kids that are moving to different schools and our last day with Mrs. Higdon), excitement (about the beginning of Summer break), and relief (that I ended the school year with all of my paperwork complete). Most of all, however, I will have a feeling of PRIDE! I am so proud of every single one of my students! This year, we have watched them grow academically and socially. We have watched them make friends and form loving relationships with each other. We have watched them achieve things that even they thought they could never do.

I must say that this has been my BEST year of teaching yet. I appreciate everyone that has made this year wonderful and successful. I appreciate the support and hard work of all of our students' parents. You all are AMAZING!

So... say a little prayer for me tomorrow! I'm sure I will cry (tears of joy and sadness). However, I will walk out of the front door tomorrow afternoon with a sense of pride that will remain with me forever! I can honestly say that I HAVE THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!

Love,
Ms. Malcom

Summer Birthdays!

For the past three years, I have said that Mrs. Higdon is one of the sweetest, most thoughtful people I know. Once again, she proved that to be true. On Monday, Mrs. Higdon planned a surprise "Summer" birthday party for those of us (Ms. Malcom, Mrs. Stowe, DeAsia, Lucy, and Tony) who have birthdays during the Summer. While we were in the computer lab, she decorated the room. She even baked us a precious cake that was sooooo yummy!

Before celebrating our birthdays, we colored birthday hats for us to wear at our party!

Our birthday cake that Mrs. Higdon made us!


Joyria in her birthday hat!

Enoch in his birthday hat!

Friends forever!

A class picture with the birthday cake and decorations!

Lighting the candles!

The birthday kiddos making a wish and blowing out their candles!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you so much Mrs. Higdon for thinking of us and for making this day so special!

Field Day Picture that Ms. Jodi Took!

Ms. Jodi, one of our good friends, is a great photographer. She came to field day and took some beautiful pictures of our students! They are below!

Weren't these beautiful? Thanks so much Ms. Jodi!

Field Day!

Last Friday, we participated in our school field day. We were so excited. Below is our class picture (including baby Blair) on our way to field day!

Our students were so good at the field day events. Even more impressive, they tried every event, even if they thought they couldn't do it!

We did some jumping!

We did some crab walking! This was so cute. Jameer and Tony did their own version of the crab walk (actually rolling)!

We had some 3-legged races!

Coach Sloop (our school's PE coach) is a great friend to DeAsia!

We did some wheelbarrow races!

We did some sack races!

We kicked and sit some balls!

As you can see, we had so much fun at field day!

Special Olympics Awards Ceremony!

We were so happy to get to our Special Olympics Awards Ceremony and celebrate all that we have accomplished this year.

As they do every year, there was a door prize. Who's ticket number was called first? SANTOES!! Look at the cute pig he picked as his prize. :-)

Each student got a trophy for their participation, hard work, and determination in Special Olympics!

Oh my! :-)

We had lots of special visitors. Lucy's cousin and aunt came. Tony's mom, dad, and brother came. La'Shawn's mother came. We appreciate their support!

Joyria was so proud of her trophy!

Lucy and La'Shawn will always be best friends!

Enoch also won a door prize. He picked M&M's for his prize and he enjoyed them. Ha! Ha!

Mrs. Dew poses with La'Shawn. Mrs. Dew is retiring this year. She will be greatly missed!

After our awards ceremony, we walked down to the lake (at Turner Lake)!

Love this picture of Enoch!

A group picture at the lake!

Then, we went to play on the playground. We had a blast!

Mrs. Stowe poses with Mrs. Sterling and La'Shawn!

Congratulations to all of our atletes! Way to go!