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Teachers- how did you tell your class?
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I teach K, and I'm just beginning to look pg and not just like I have been eating for 7 perople. Did you write a letter to the parents letting them know what was going on or did you just let the word spread? I have parents starting to work in my classroom tomorrow and I want to tell them, I just dont' want them to think I was holding out on them- this being the 2nd week of school. I didn't mention it at back to school night because most of them I was meeting for the first time and I didn't want to spring it on them- and the other pm teacher and I did our talk together.
Any advice would be super helpful!! TIA
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Re: Teachers- how did you tell your class?
I teach third grade and told my students on the first day of school. I am noticably showing, but I don't think my new students figured it out. (Last year's students sure did!)
Anyway, I had them do "me" bags for their first homework assignment. They put 4-5 items about themselves into bags. I showed my bag the first day of school, and I had a baby hat in there and I explained that I was having a baby in December. I figured they'd tell their parents right away, but I guess I was wrong- every mom I've meet has stared at my stomach the whole time we've talked. So now I'm wondering if I should send a note home or wait until Open House on the 21st.
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I told my last year's class like the last week of school. So some of the families heard it around town. The rest saw when they came into the room on meet-the-teacher night.
I do a handbook and send it home the first day of school. It has my expectations, curriculum info, etc. The first page is a letter from me to the parents. I wrote about where I went to college, my hometown, about DH and I put in there that we're expecting our first LO in Dec. I told them that I was taking a maternity and would return this school year (most of our teachers take off a year or half a year...it's not in our budget).
I am not a teacher but my younger sister's teacher is pregnant. I thought she handled things wonderfully.
She did not bring it up at open house for the same reason you didn't. The only reason I knew she was pregnant was b/c she is friends with one of my mother's coworkers and we are about the same spot in our pregnancies so my mom thought I would appreciate someone to talk to. She waited until the first week of school was over so the kids could settle in (she is a special ed teacher, my younger sister is a high functioning autistic) and then this next week (the 2nd week of school) she is sending home a note about her being pregnant to the parents and letting the know she will be telling them on Wednesday about her being pregnant as well as introducing the woman who will cover for her during maternity leave.
Good luck but I thought her approach was brilliant.
Oh oh...forgot about this part. One of our teachers does a "What did you do over the summer?" bullentin board. Everyone writes stuff like they went on vacation, moved, painted their house, camped...yadda yadda. I wrote, "Jake and I moved, went to Missouri, and found out the baby was a girl!" Parents read it coming down to my room. It was sorta like we had something in common immediately. They either told me all the wonder stories about their daughters or told me that they had boys and wanted a girl.
My former students loved it! Not all of them have enough time to come and visit in the morning. They saw the board walking to specials/lunch. They've brought in lil gifts for her, too. There's even a boy with special needs who's picking out baby names for us (I don't have the heart to tell him that Leah is set in stone).
I told my class last year during a writing lesson. They helped me write my story and I guided them to the baby part. The title was pink or blue, but they didn't get the connection until the end.
I was still in my first tri-mester, but I had an u/s and already told my principal and co-workers. I teach special education, so most of my students last year had been with me 2-3 years. I was very close to them and they were an amazing group of children. I really enjoyed being able to share our news with them.
This year 9/10 of my students have never been in my class before. The town where DH and I live and teach is small, so I assume parents probably already know. If not I guess I will adress it on Back to School Night, but I am visably pregnant and it would be hard to avoid the topic.
School here hasn't started back yet, but I was due for my 20-week-scan as school was ending here in July. A few TAs knew, but I hadn't let on to my Year 5 students (eqiv. to 4th grade, US) that I was expecting. But one day, one of my girls (only 6 in the class) overheard me talking to another teacher and I could just see her grinning. When the teacher left, she said she thought she knew what my secret was. I asked what she thought and she said "I think you're going to have a baby because I noticed you have been touching your stomach a lot." By the end of lunch-time, all the girls in the class knew and I pretty much had to let the rest of the class know.
A couple weeks later at the final parents' evening of the term, I had lots of congratulations from my students' parents and one even said her daughter had already convinced her Nan to knit me a baby blanket, hehe. They all seemed pleased and genuinely happy, so that was a nice feeling.
I told people on our meet-the-teacher night and a lot of them apparently already knew! I am leaving in December and not returning, though. I put it in my intro letter as well.
There is a young kids' book called Our Teacher's Having a Baby by Eve Bunting that should work for kindergarten-aged-students. I saw it on Amazon, a little young for my third graders and it's about the teacher that will return after maternity leave