school...school...and more school...

So I am now on my 4th week of teaching and I think I am slowly getting things under control, and getting use to the curriculum. I hope that the kids are learning something. This week (well Friday and I volunteered my time) I got to rearrange my classroom again, but it looks so much better now. I was able to take out a ton of things that were broken, ripped, missing pieces, or didn't want anymore. It was so much fun. The classroom now looks like a kindergarten classroom that school age children use which is the goal. This weeks goal is to get things on the walls and start running Catch the Wave ( our after school program). When I am not working and teaching school I am going to school, and loving it but there are times I wonder why I decided to go back right now, it hasn't been easy at all to get everything done in a day that I need to and still have a little bit of time for me so I don't go insane. I keep looking at the end result and know that its all going to be worth it in the end.

Survived first real week of teaching...

On Tuesday I started my actual first week of teaching, and it was so much fun. I loved every minute of it, but I only have 7 kids at the most all week during school hours helps. Monday we start working on the letters and reading high frequency words. We also start a 7 week unit on Now and Then. We will be creating life size children, and talking about the passing of time. I am so excited. I only hope that making the bodies goes better than it did this summer cause right now I am seeing a train wreck.

Oh, and to update everyone. When I was hired in April it was to teach Kindergarten and then be a floater in the afternoon and also drive one of the buses to pick up the school age children. Thank goodness that's changed. I am now also the teacher for the school age children and get to still work with some of my children from this summer. Its been fun to be with them still, and its so much easier also since they aren't at the center that long, and a lot of it is outside for right now until I figure everything out for the after school program and get it up and running, but there are still a few that I miss, and will always miss. Some of them though will be coming back to visit on days when they don't have school. I can't wait for those days! Although I am excited for the school year, both in and out of work (for those of you who don't know I am also going back to school) I can't wait for summer to have all of my kids back again.