A day to remember

 

I always remember that day as if it was yesterday. I was working as a preschool teacher, even though I was still a university student. I have always thought that getting that job,was a blessing from God, not only because it was my first steady job with a regular salary, but also because it was a special school. It is important to mention that that preschool accepted regular students, mentally handicapped students or Down syndrome students, and they all shared the same class with the same kind of academic demands. They were only separated in groups because of their age. 

It was a sunny Spring day in 1992, and with my group of students I had been doing the Unit "Spring" for two weeks, learning vocabulary (verbs, nouns, adjectives), coloring pictures, drawings about Spring, etc. The day to have a review came and I decided to check some vocabulary, so I used the classroom decoration to ask my students for some of these decorations' names in English. So I asked 'what's this?', and my students answered 'a flower!', 'what's that?' and my students answered 'a butterfly!', and then I asked 'what's this?'.....the whole class remained in silence...and suddenly I heard a voice saying with a perfect English pronunciation...'a bird!'. It was Danitza, a lovely student with a mental disability. She was the only one who could remember that word. My blood went to my feet and I almost burst into tears because I had an enormous difficulty bearing with the emotion. In that moment I was certain that teaching was my duty in this world......

Now, it is your turn......

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- What your remarkable day is

- What happened that day. Details

- Who participated in the event.

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