So . . . this has been a CRAZY week, in all aspects. The testing went extremely well with the kids. It was great to meet them ahead of time and interesting to see where they picked to sit in the room. It's also interesting to see their reading levels. I've got a few low reader's. I had a funny happen on Thursday. As one boy came in to my classroom with his mom, I stuck out my hand and said, "Hi! I'm Natasha!". Oops! I quickly changed it to Miss Jones and told the mom I wasn't sure how THAT happened. LOL. She said, "Well, it is your name." I'm not sure how that came out, since I'd been saying Miss Jones all day Monday AND Thursday. He was almost my last student of that day. Anyway, it was pretty funny.
We've had some of Katie's (my roommate) family and friends of the family with several kids at our house all week. It's been a FULL house. We are used to peace and quiet and it certainly wasn't that this week. I realized that if I had kids right now, that that would be what I would come home to everyday. I've been spoiled with this peace and quiet. I'm also grateful that they come as babies and not as preschoolers.
Wednesday, I had the opportunity to take a meal to one of my visiting teachees. She and her husband have been married for 7 years, but never been able to have kids. They've been trying to adopt over the last year, and finally last Friday, they received a baby girl. I got to hold her and rock her while she slept. They are so precious! What a blessing for them. She is beautiful! It's wonderful to see the miracles happening around me.
Yesterday, I had been at school all day with meetings and being in my classroom. My team utilized our afternoon time we had yesterday. 2 of us went to blow some things up and get them laminated for the team, 1 of us made copies, and Jen and I planned our first math unit. We've decided as a team that we want to be on the same page and so we are planning units together. I'm SO excited for this year. Even after all this, I felt very ready to go home, both physically, emotionally, and everything else. I realized that though I felt ready with how we've planned as a team, I didn't feel completely organized in my classroom for the first week to start.
I have a student teacher this year, but I hadn't yet heard from her. I had talked with my vice-principal and she thought my student teacher would contact me. From the letter I had received, my student teacher was supposed to spend 6 hours before school started with me and spend the 1st day of school in the classroom. Yet, here it was the Friday before school started. I pulled out her phone # to give her a call. She called me back to say that she wasn't aware of these things that she was supposed to do before school started and the first day and that she didn't have my contact info. I'm not sure what happened, but somewhere the lines of communication broke down, whomever it was with. She came over to the school right then and spent a couple of hours with me. I think she'll be good. I brought a whole pile of stuff from school to accomplish this weekend! Most of my time is now spent with my thoughts on school things.
I've noticed my thoughts are all over the place as I write this. This shows how my brain is kind of scattered and having a hard time staying on one thing. I'm constantly thinking of all the things I need to do. I had a fantabulous summer, but am very excited for school to start and be back working again. I do better when I am busy and productive. Whew! Hopefully, I'll get enough sleep this weekend to start on Monday and not be too exhausted, especially with the Olympics going on. It's kept me up every night LATE!!!
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