School is Fun!

I love those days when, at the end of the school day,  I think to myself: Today was so fun!  I actually get paid to teach and have fun with kids all day!  Awesome!  Granted, not every day is like that, but I've been having a lot of those fun days recently. I love it when my students are having fun and learning at the same time.  I think it's so important to provide students with experiences where they can see that learning can be fun.  If students have fun learning, hopefully they'll come love learning and become lifelong learners.

I have heard comments from others about how learning can't always and shouldn't always be fun.  One of the reasons I've heard for this is that "Most jobs aren't all about fun and games."  I get that, but I have a super fun job, and I know a lot of people who have fun at their jobs too.  I also don't think that just because some people's jobs are boring doesn't mean that we teachers shouldn't have fun with our students wherever we can.  Maybe if we have more fun in school, we'll create people who will have more fun in their jobs and lives in the future.

This post is pretty much an example of stream of conciousness, but I guess, as I'm thinking about this issue of fun in school, my thoughts are mostly summed up by: Why wouldn't you want to have fun in school whenever you can?

SCHOOL IS FUN!