Celebrate Your Favorite Kindergarten Teacher (Gallery)
Today is National Kindergarten Day. We want to celebrate by remembering those special teachers who gave us our start in elementary school.
Angel here and I still remember and have contact with my Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Searcy, from Calhoun Elementary School. Can I say I am pretty sure it is like a right of passage that Kindergarten teachers don't age even a bit? Mrs. Searcy looks exactly like I remember her at five years old. She was strict and loving and kept my talkative, sassy butt in line. I just recall her being like superwoman for real. Our class had a bunch of chatty and very busy kiddos and her classroom ran like a well-oiled machine. Two of my favorite memories were our Thanksgiving program and making our outfits out of paper grocery bags and the day we got to perform like we were in the circus at the end of the year. I was a gymnast. Mrs. Searcy set the tone for my schooling after leaving her I would switch schools 12 times. I always wished I could go back to her classroom it was a safe place for me. Fast forward 30 something years and I run into her in McLean county and without a doubt, she knew exactly who I was and hugged my neck. It made me feel so special. I even got the chance to give her praise when I emceed the McLean County Pageants several years ago. I was reminiscing my time living there and my ties. She sent me this message the next day: