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This school year in the Sparta School District was truly wonderful.  I have taught kindergarten for many years, and was able to bring something new to Sparta in an academic sense.  The children learned so many things, and I am the proud Mother Bird as they are ready to leave the nest.  I have a great sense of accomplishment as I see the progress of students who could not write their names, never the less hold a pencil, now write me daily journals about whatever they would like to tell me.  As I see little children who didn't know what a title of a book was, now choose to read stories on their own by looking through titles to read what is of most interest to them.  Little students who knew to count to 10, but couldn't identify those numbers now add, subtract, and write to 100....by ones, twos, fives and tens.  They certainly have grown in height, but they have grown in countless ways with knowledge.  I feel very proud to be able to be the first construction worker to build the foundation that the rest of their education apartment will be built upon.  Next year I look forward on expanding some of the themes and areas that I taught this year.  I look forward to seeing my first Sparta students in the hallways in the coming years, listening to the new accomplishments and progress they continue to make, knowing....everything they needed to know in school, they learned the basics in kindergarten.