Elementary teacher Christa Metzger was in her classroom at Anchorage’s Trailside Elementary School the week before school started. She was wrestling with a hand pump, trying to blow up a stingray floaty. Finally inflated, she held it up.
“Look how cool the eyes look,” she said. “I don’t know if that’s how real stingray eyes look.”
She planned to hang it in a corner, as part of the classroom’s ocean theme. There was a lot to do, like unpack boxes, shelve books and figure out how to arrange the desks. Also on the list: find out what grade she’s teaching…