All Ready to Roll...I Think

Ok so it took me a long 7 days to get my room done. Now I'm talking labeling books, putting books in desks, hanging up posters, writing birthday's on cute little cupcakes, organizing the behavior chart, the all about me BB, loading supplies on shelves and not to mention dragging all the books back to my room.

When I left yesterday everything was ready except for my new calendar. I still had to put velcro on the pieces but I decided to bring it home and do it while watching tv. Besides the calendar I just have to figure out what to do with the kids next week but I think I will just wing it as I usually do.

So here I am bumming around my house today. Did some cleaning and finally caught up on Days of our Lives. Connor was taking his nap and I was just about to join him when all of a sudden the phone rings. Ok...not unusual for the phone to ring but it was school. I hear the secretary say hi and the first thing I said was "you're calling to tell me I have a new kid aren't you"? She just laughed.

Now I have 30 little cherubs to teach so far this year. The biggest disappointment was that it was a girl. Now I have 19 girls and 11 boys. Oh boy...here come the tattles...I can hear them now.

So...now I have to lug my 15 month old to school with me tomorrow so that I can make sure I have enough books for this kid. Not what I was planning on doing but I guess I don't have much of a choice.

Looking forward to a non stressful year...YEA RIGHT!!!!

Will I ever get done?

I know I haven't posted for about a week now but man have I been busy. I went back to my classroom last Monday for the first time all summer. I thought with being there the whole week I would be done and be able to bum around this week...yea right...I thought wrong. Needless to say I am going in tomorrow.

Monday and Tuesday went well. Got lots of stuff done. Once Wednesday came it all went downhill. First of all on Wednesday as I was leaving my house my mom called to tell me that she left her medicine at home and could I drop it off. Now you see my mom had a liver transplant in 1998 so how could I say no to bringing her meds to her. Once I left my mom's work my hubby and I drove downtown to Kinko's to pick up my new calendar. I bought this great new calendar set from smilemakes only it was too big to fit into the laminator. My only other choice was to take it to Kinko's. So after I left Kinko's I journeyed to school. It's now about 10:30 when hubby and I arrive at school only to have to leave by 12:45 to take our son to his check-up at the doctor. As you can tell, I didn't get much done.

Now comes Thursday...I get to school with my coffee and my blueberry muffin all ready to get busy when here comes my friend who teaches 5th grade (not looking too happy). She approaches me and says "you're not gonna be too happy". She proceeds to tell me that there is no electricity in the building until at least noon. So what am I supposed to do?...I already dropped my son off at the babysitters (can't get the money back for the day) and I really wanted to get into school. Well we did the next best thing...we went to the nail salon and then to the mall :)

Finally about 1:00 we arrived back at school with full electricity and no motivation to do anything. Are you surprised? I ended up staying till about 3:00.

I did go to school on Friday and got a lot done. I also made the mistake of looking through the porfolios of my new kiddos. I never do this only because I already know my kids from when they were in Kindergarten. This year is different because of the merger. I knew when I opened the box I should not have.

Until the next post...

Day 1...and I feel like nothing was done

Hi all fellow blog readers...today I went into school for the first time since June. It was so sad to see how empty my room was. As soon as I walked into the room, I thought about the million things that needed to get done. My wonderful hubby was with me to help out. He is so good to me. He put all my name plates on the desks and hung up backing paper on two of my bulletin boards. I on the other hand...felt like I was useless. Of course I had to mingle and chit chat with all the teachers that I haven't seen over the summer. My hubby says that I never get anything accomplished the first day back because I feel the need to talk and talk and talk.

So here is what I actually did today...
1. Arranged desks in groups (5 groups of 6)
2. Placed the name plates where I wanted the kiddos to sit.
3. Laminated my new calendar and all about me set.
4. Cut out and hung up my all about me set...which looks great I might add :)
5. Put files away into my new cabinet.
6. Wrote out names on library pockets for my behavior board.
7. Put the books on the desks only to find out that I am missing 19 Religion books.

Gee...I guess I did get a lot of things done today.


So we stayed at school until about 3:30 and needless to say my classroom looks like a bomb hit it. Tomorrow I plan on getting the other bulletin boards together and start pulling things out of my closet. This is such a long and exhausting job...at times I just wish my name was Samantha Stevens and all I had to do is twinkle my nose and it would all be done for me :))))))

Until next time bloggers...

This stinks

So I just wrote this whole long post about all the things I have to go before school starts and it all got erased...only my luck! Well I'm not gonna sit here and retype it all so I will post next week after I have been in my classroom...maybe I will attach some pictures.

PS...here is a picture of Connor...15 months old

Until then...

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Hi all...well as you can see this is my first post on here. I have been thinking about blogging in the past few weeks but I have been so busy. You see not only am I a First Grade Teacher but I am also the mother of a very active and super 15 month old named Connor. So as you can see my days are quite busy. So...anyway...I am a First Grade Teacher and I love it. I am getting ready to start my 6th year teaching. I just can't believe how fast those years went by. I am so excited about going back to school. I obviously don't work in the summer due to my wonderful son so I spend most of my free time in the summer doing...well...school work. Many people think I am nuts. I should be going here and going there but the truth is it's just too hot. Usually while Connor is sleeping I try to do some school work. Most of what I do consists of the internet. I am always looking for a new way to teach something or a new fun idea to use in my classroom. So...yeah...I'm still a kid at heart. I live for the back to school sales at Target, Kmart, Walmart. I don't know what it is but I just feel the need to have to buy crayons, folders, and spiral copybooks in bulk. You just never know when you will need them. My husband just loves this time of the year. Every August he says "well, there goes all the money". Honestly he doesn't mind at all...he just pretends. Well, I guess I could go on forever but I don't want to bore you with my first blog. There will be lots of stories to read on here once school starts. I will keep you posted. Until next time...