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| Goodbye, Summer |
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What an exhausting few days! They keep coming, and I keep giving, but . . . Hello! I just want to lie down and sleep for about three days straight.
That’s not going to happen, though. Darn.
On Friday I went to the all-day (‘all’ doesn’t even begin to describe the vastness of what those eight hours could possibly feel like) new Math series in-service. Yeah, it was as boring as it sounds. With all the information that was stuffed into our summer-can’t-possibly-be-over-already minds, realization began to dawn: there is no way that I am going to be able to cram all of this information into the brains of these third graders this year.
Seriously, with talk of the “No Child Left Behind”, I started worrying that I wasn’t going to be able to teach what I needed to teach, that my students’ scores would be low on the SAT-9/CAL 6 tests, that and they would come and drag me off and put me in some low-achieving teacher dungeon. Or something like that.
Okay, so that’s not going to happen. Fortunately, I love teaching, and I love the challenge. I want to make sure that my students are proficient in not only Math, but all that writing and reading stuff that we teach, too! Heh!
I have some fresh ideas in store for the kids this year. That’s an important thing for teachers, I think. It is important for me at least. Of course, I don’t like things to stay the same for too long. I change my furniture around a lot, too.
Really, though, it’s going to be a great year! Regardless of the nervousness that seems to be seeping through my veins right now about the burden that I am taking on with the five SED kids, I am truly eager to get the show on the road.
It seems like all I am doing is work work work! I stay at school until about 8 P.M. and then bring work home with me to do. It’s usually all the cutting out kind of stuff or things that I need to label or whatnot. I can do it while I watch television. At 10 P.M., I stop and just rest on the couch for an hour. My ankle has been bothering me lately; it feels like I sprained or twisted it or something. So, for an hour I keep ice on it before going to bed. It’s been like this for several days now.
Tomorrow school starts.
I’m not ready.
I’ll never be “ready”.
Regardless of whether or not I feel ready, the students are coming . . . tomorrow!
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