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The Weird Kid's Guide to Surviving Fifth Grade (and Beyond): Five Years of Questions and Answers About Life

The Weird Kid's Guide to Surviving Fifth Grade (and Beyond): Five Years of Questions and Answers About Life

Fox, April

Paperback

Education

ISBN13: 9798868255007
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 20 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

After years of writing for a living and working in classrooms from preschool to high school, I jumped at the chance to teach fifth grade. I was partnered that first year with an amazing teacher named Emmaly, and part of our curriculum included a unit on things like self-esteem, body image, peer pressure, puberty, and the dreaded S-E-X. At the end of each lesson we brought out a question box, which allowed students to submit anonymous questions about the topic of that day's lesson, and they'd be answered out loud at the next lesson the following week. I was tasked with answering those questions, and to be honest, I was scared to death. I had, at that point, raised six kids; the youngest at that point was in her mid-teens, the oldest in his mid-twenties, and I still had no idea what the hell I was doing. Yes, I had had conversations with my kids about all of those things, and no, I was not convinced that I hadn't royally screwed them up. Still, when it's your first year in the classroom and you're asked to do something, you smile and say, Of course! and you dive in and do the best you can.

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