- Thursday was my one month anniversary at Bancroft! I was bestowed the gift of two absent kids and at one point, when two of my students were at Special Resources, I only had 16 kids in the room. It was soooo quiet and productive! The kids were all just working and following directions and for a whole hour, I actually felt like, "hey, I can really do this!" It totally made me smile like an idiot watching them all work and listen and learn. It's hard to explain, but it felt magical.
- Michael and I heard on the news that teaching is a "recession proof job". Woo-hoo, for the toughest job I have ever had!!!
- Parent-Teacher conferences are next week and you could easily describe my mental state as nauseous. Yeah, that's right, if my brain could throw up it probably would...that is how much I am dreading this. I haven't even begun writing up report cards. Eeek!
- Not that it is anything new and interesting, but I am so incredibly tired! Over the past month, I have been trying to get the routines down with this class. I add more and more routines and procedures everyday, so not only are many of then new, but there are more everyday. The scary part is that, I am not even in auto-pilot yet. I am more in zombie mode. Sometimes I go through the day and can't remember one thing specifically that we did. I am that person now that yawns through meetings and nods off during dinner. I have bags under my eyes the size of pillowcases and I do mixed up stuff like put the cereal box in the freezer. I do stuff like try to ask the kids a question and inadvertently tell them the answer instead...ding dong....your brain dead teacher is here!
Okay, that is it for my wild Saturday night blogging. I'm off to zzzzzzzzzzz..........
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