Mr. Montgomery's Top 10 Things About Him: #9 Playing Games

Oh...Hi!

I was just checking out one of my game shelves.  You caught me on game night.  Every Tuesday, I host the teenagers from church for a board game night at my house.  My favorite hobby when I am not teaching is collecting and playing hobby board games.  I liked to play games when I was a kid, but I have discovered the most amazing games as an adult.  I like to read about games and try as many out as I can.  I also love teaching games and I will be showing you some of my favorites this year.  My favorite game in my collection is Flash Point: Fire Rescue.

Flash Point is a cooperative game where everyone works together to help put out a fire in a building.  We will meet some real firefighters this year and talk about fire safety.  They are truly heroes and role models. This isn't as serious as their job, but I enjoy playing this game because like real firefighters, you have to work together to be successful.  I think you can learn a lot about life through playing games.  Cooperation and teamwork are both very important for us to be the kind of team that I hope we will be.

There is another important lesson that you can learn when you play challenging board games.  You should always give your best in every challenge, but it is okay if you mess up sometimes.  Every time that I lose a game, I learn an important lesson and I will do a better job the next time.  I smile and say good job to whoever won the game.  I also make sure to remind myself that I had fun learning how to play better even if I am disappointed sometimes that I didn't win.

School is a lot like that.  We need to try our best everyday, but sometimes other people will do things better than us or we will not know the correct answers.  All I want you to do this year is try your best, learn from every mistake, and decide that you only need to make each mistake once.  Learning is fun!  We can congratulate our teammates on being successful and know that if we tried our best we are all winners.

I would talk more, but as you can see I have a lot of cleaning up to do tonight.  See you tomorrow when you will learn something new about me.

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Mr. Montgomery's Top 10 Things About Him

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, Children of All Ages!!  It is time to go back to school and for your expedition in Room 106 to begin.  I am so excited that we get to go on this journey together.  I was in the classroom today moving furniture and dreaming about the adventures in learning that we will be having this year.  I am VERY excited to get started, but first...I should introduce myself.

Hi!  I am Mr. Montgomery your new teacher.

I know many of you have seen me around the school, but do you really know me?  I am going to take you on a journey to discover the things that I love the most and hopefully this year I will quickly learn about the things that you love the most.  If you follow closely, you may see that we have something in common before the school year even begins.

Today, I want to tell you about my family. I love my family and I would love to tell you about all of them, but I will begin by introducing the people who live in my house.  This is my wife.  You know what her name is?  That's right...it is Mrs. Montgomery.

She is an amazing woman who helps make sure that I am at my best everyday.  I am excited because she just found an amazing new job where she won't be working on Fridays so we may actually get to see her at school. She is working at Natural Wellness and Pain Relief Center in Grand Blanc. She is also a LuLaRoe consultant and sells clothes from our home. She likes to read, shop, and travel to see her family.  Her family lives all over the country, so she has to travel around to see them all.  They live in New York, Illinois, Texas, and New Mexico. Her advice for having a great year is to "Have a positive attitude and smile everyday!"

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Not yet Thomas...OK, I guess I can tell you more about Mrs. Montgomery another time.  Thomas has decided that it is his turn to be the center of attention.  Tom was here when we bought our house and moved from being an outside cat to quickly being the center of the family.  He works for the pest control company around our house catching mice and leaving them on the porch to surprise Mrs. Montgomery.  Thomas likes to sleep, hunt, eat, sleep, eat, and sleep.  He is kind of shy, but he sure likes to strut around the house when no one else is around.  His advice to have a great year is to "Meow meow meow meow purrrr meow meow meoooooooowwwww!"  I don't always understand everything he says, but I think he said, "Believe in yourself and you can do ANYTHING!"

You will find out more about me in the upcoming weeks, but I hope you enjoyed meeting two of the most important people in my life.  I will look forward to hearing about your families and how they help you be the best person you can be.  

I hope you are reading everyday and keeping your brain sharp.  We will have a lot of fun this year, but we will also be working hard.  With hard work, a good attitude, belief in yourself, and a smile we can do anything!

See you tomorrow!

Mr. Montgomery

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