My teacher.

My teacher, Ms.Baldwin, has not been able to teach at my school ever since January.  The reason for this is because a disk by her spine is pinching one of her nerves, which she describes as "a constant pain in her back".  From that day to now, my class has had about 4 or 5 substitutes.  2 were long-term subs, and the rest were for just one day.  It really touched my heart when kids from other classes were concerned about her and wanted to know what happened.  Later that month, 2 kids in my class decided to do some research about what Ms.Baldwin's going through and turn it into a partner speech because apparently, she hadn't looked at the paper her doctor gave her about it.  We have weekly speeches, with about 8 kids each day of the school week.  Doing a partner speech is optional, but but time-saving.  Since our current sub and a few of my other classmates liked that idea, they decided to turn that into a whole-class project.  We researched 2 topics: Sciatic Nerve and Herniated Disk. Then, the teacher split us into research groups of 5.  Each group researches 1 topic.  The 2 who came up with the idea did both topics because they already researched both.  The week before we gave our "Ms.Baldwin speeches", our substitute announced that we would all give our speech to our real teacher on Skype on Thursday!  Everyone was really happy to know that they were going to give their speeches to Ms.Baldwin technically "in person".  On the days before the event, we practiced our speeches during the time when we would usually give our weekly speeches. On that day, none of us were shy, but we all felt strong and sounded strong.  I am happy to hear that Ms.Baldwin will be back tomorrow, even though the class had a great time with our 2 long-term subs (I don't even what the other 1 day substitutes were named!).



*Note* This was months ago, so I might be incorrect about somethings about this topic. If you want to learn more, look up Sciatic Nerve and Herniated Disk.