This year our pre-school week had more meetings scheduled than usual, which left me with very little classroom prep time. If I were a new teacher, I would have been in high stress mode the entire week, but luckily, I am an eighteen year veteran and realized that regardless of how crunched I was for time, I would somehow manage to be ready for Day One. Thankfully I made the decision to go in a couple of times before I had to, and so my room was pretty well set up by the day I had to report back. This allowed me to make copies of the first week activities in fifteen minute blocks of time, which was truly all the time I had. I finally got the stacks of papers organized on Friday before I left for the day, but because we adopted new textbooks and a new scanner system to track them, I have 180 textbooks spread all over my room, which means I am going into the building on Sunday to shelve them. It's either that or do it before class on Tuesday, and Sunday is definitely the lesser of two evils.
I hate that I spent very little time on the curriculum, but that just means I will stay late a lot the month of September. I did find a website that I'm browsing through this weekend: the National Wriring Project. And I still have the books I bought in July and August to study, so all is not lost.
How are your first few weeks looking?
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