So, it is official - I am a first grade teacher. Thank God the school week was only three days this week. Three days was an eternity!

I don’t even really know where to start! I have 21 students enrolled in my class. Two were new students that showed up the first day. School supplies were everywhere. Transportation was crazy. I’d had bus duty. I’ve only had half of my planning time two of the three days. I only eat yogurt for lunch (the first day I didn’t even eat anything for lunch). Some kids I thought would be behavior problems aren’t, and kids I thought would be fine have behavior issues. My special education student is hardly ever in my room. Doing arts and crafts with first graders is insane. My kids are basically still kindergartners right now. Many don’t know all of their letters, sounds, numbers, etc. It’s going to be a challenging year (especially having to do my internship over again), but I am excited about it all and I know it will get better as each day goes by. I feel a lot more organized this time around. I have more support. I actually spend my lunch time with other teachers and enjoy myself. It could definitely be a lot worse overall.

I woke up this morning with a sore ear and sore throat. I am hope I am not getting sick already. I’ve gotten home around 5:00 each day so far. Colin actually came after school on Wednesday to help me sort through supplies and everything.

It’s going to be tough keeping up with everything though. I am going to be so busy. I have new teacher meetings every month at the board office. I have special meetings with the director of elementary education every month. I have to spend so many in class and out of class hours with my resource teacher. I have to manage the school website as well as my own. I have to lead the technology committee, and I am a member of another committee as well. Oh yeah, and I have to teach first graders! It’s going to be crazy I tell you!

I may start writing some password protected posts. I don’t want to share any personal information about my students, but I probably would like to just comment on a general issue or something that’s happened. In that case, I will probably password protect certain entries just to be on the safe side. I’m still working on my classroom website, and when it’s more finished I’ll post a link to it here.

I’m tired. I have a lot to do this weekend though. Not having to wake up at 5:45 or 6:00 this morning was nice though.

I’m still alive, yay!

I’ve just been super busy getting things ready for open house tomorrow night and then school starting on Wednesday. Things have been a little crazy! I’ve met all of the teachers new to my school except one. The one next door to me is really nice, which is great.

I’ve also been assigned my intern resource teacher. I got a good teacher! She’s really excited to be working with me, and I’m excited too.

I got my hair done on Thursday, and I actually made a video afterward or me talking about my hair and stuff. I tried uploading it, and it kept timing out. I’ll try again once I get some time. I got a lot of my hair cut off and got a curly perm.

My flash drive should be here tomorrow. I am a little disappointed with Mimoco right now. It took them SIX days after I made my order to get my package to UPS. SIX DAYS! I didn’t pay $10.00 for shipping just for my package to sit around for six days. It bugs me too, because on their site, it said my order was complete. Well… it wasn’t complete if it sat there for SIX DAYS!

Colin and I saw Stepbrothers last night. Funny movie.