Make a date with the teacher to visit your child's classroom. Are the kids busy learning, exploring and asking questions? Does the teacher draw them in?

I started in the fall of 1984 teaching first grade in Sabetha, Kansas. I moved back to Manhattan in 1986 enrolled in graduate school and spent a year subbing. I was hired in 1987 to teach first grade at Eugene Field School and moved into the kindergarten position the following year. I fell in love with kindergarten and have been a kindergarten teacher for 17 years. I have been in the classroom for 21 years, and I am learning new things all the time.