Toni Michelle Morris
Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary
Fourth Grade
Room 804
2000 Farm Life Ave
Vanceboro, NC 28586
(252) 244-3215
[email protected]
Welcome to my Fabulous Fourth Grade! Let me tell you about myself....My name is Toni Michelle Morris and I have taught a total of 20 years. I have been at VFLE for 19 years. My first year here I taught AG and then Kindergarten for 15 years and in 2012 I was moved to fourth grade. I am not originally from Vanceboro, but I have lived here now for the last 9 years. I live in Vanceboro with my husband Keith (he works at West Craven High School) and two of our children, Michaela - 15 (going on 16) and Austin - 8. Our other daughter, Kelsie graduated from NC State and is married to our awesome son-in-love Trey. She teaches third grade and Trey teaches High School Math. They live and work in North Raleigh, Wake County. Before moving to Vanceboro I lived in New Bern. I grew up all over the east coast, moving 14+ times as a child growing up. My family is originally from New Bern and they returned home to retire. I followed my family and that is how I ended up here. I spent most of my years growing up around the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area. I lived as far north as Pittsburgh, PA and as far south as Louisiana & Alabama. I attended Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) in WV and received my BS in Elementary Education from there. I also have a Birth-K add on license that I received from UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus). I am also a certified AIG teacher. I received that add on in my first few years in Craven County. It is fair to say that I have been a "city" girl most of my life, but the small town living has grown on me and I love Vanceboro and Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary. Summer is my favorite time of year. I love to go to the beach and soak up the sun. My favorite summer activity is going out on our boat with my family. I also like Fall when the temperature changes and the days get cooler. I also like to read and watch movies.
All I Ever Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up you own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we all are like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all -n LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the world world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. By: Robert Fulghum
Fourth Grade
Room 804
2000 Farm Life Ave
Vanceboro, NC 28586
(252) 244-3215
[email protected]
Welcome to my Fabulous Fourth Grade! Let me tell you about myself....My name is Toni Michelle Morris and I have taught a total of 20 years. I have been at VFLE for 19 years. My first year here I taught AG and then Kindergarten for 15 years and in 2012 I was moved to fourth grade. I am not originally from Vanceboro, but I have lived here now for the last 9 years. I live in Vanceboro with my husband Keith (he works at West Craven High School) and two of our children, Michaela - 15 (going on 16) and Austin - 8. Our other daughter, Kelsie graduated from NC State and is married to our awesome son-in-love Trey. She teaches third grade and Trey teaches High School Math. They live and work in North Raleigh, Wake County. Before moving to Vanceboro I lived in New Bern. I grew up all over the east coast, moving 14+ times as a child growing up. My family is originally from New Bern and they returned home to retire. I followed my family and that is how I ended up here. I spent most of my years growing up around the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area. I lived as far north as Pittsburgh, PA and as far south as Louisiana & Alabama. I attended Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) in WV and received my BS in Elementary Education from there. I also have a Birth-K add on license that I received from UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus). I am also a certified AIG teacher. I received that add on in my first few years in Craven County. It is fair to say that I have been a "city" girl most of my life, but the small town living has grown on me and I love Vanceboro and Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary. Summer is my favorite time of year. I love to go to the beach and soak up the sun. My favorite summer activity is going out on our boat with my family. I also like Fall when the temperature changes and the days get cooler. I also like to read and watch movies.
All I Ever Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up you own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we all are like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all -n LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the world world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. By: Robert Fulghum