2010 ~ 2011 Shawnee Mission North 1st Day / Last Day Pictures ~ Mr. Scott's World Geography Class
Channel: nedfender
Date: 2011-11-12

These are pictures taken on the first day of school in August, 2010, (pictures on the screen) and then on the last day of school (May 2011) at Shawnee Mission North School in Mr. Scott's World Geography Class. The slide show hopes to study time, place, region, location, movement, human-environment interaction, change and reflection in the human geography domain of our class time together.


First Day of School poem

She started school this morning,
And she seemed so very small.
As I walked there beside her
In the Kindergarten hall.

And as she took her place beside
the others in the class,
I realized how all too soon
Those first few years can pass.

Remembering, I saw her as
She first learned how to walk.
The words that we alone made out
When she began to talk.

This little girl so much absorbed
In learning how to write.
It seems as though she must have grown
To girlhood overnight.

My eyes were blurred by hastily
I brushed the tears away
Lest by some word or sign of mine
I mar her first big day.

Oh how I longed to stay with her
And keep her by the hand
To lead her through the places
That she couldn't understand.

And something closely kin to fear
Was mingled with my pride.
I knew she would no longer be
A baby by my side.

But she must have her chance to live,
To work her problems out,
The privilege to grow and learn
What life is all about.

And I must share my little girl
With friends and work and play;
She's not a baby anymore --
She's in Kindergarten today.