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| New books to add to the library |
It
happened yesterday. I flipped the wall calendar in our kitchen and my heart
began to race, August. Oh Lord. As of today I have eighteen days left until our
Inservice Day, nineteen until students arrive. I feel the need to run around my
house screaming, yet I know that will make Chris more fearful for my mental
state, so I will swallow the scream.
Are you
having back-to-school anxiety yet? Here’s a list of events from today that did
not help matters.
· Printing off some Common Core
handouts from this site HERE. (Amazing, by the way. I printed the bookmarks. Thanks to Paul Hankins for pointing them out.) I read through them and my
head started swimming.
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| Bins to label |
· Knowing that Monday I need to go
learn how to use our new student management program.
· Counting 101 books on my bedroom
bookshelves that I need to read.
· Walking in my classroom today and
seeing all that needs to be done.
· Thinking of the curriculum
planning I need to finish.
· Realizing that once I have a class
list in a week I need to begin all the items on the “to do” list that require
student names.
· Seeing the stack of letters my
students wrote themselves in our end of the year celebration that I need to
mail out tomorrow. (More about that HERE)
And the list goes on, and on, and on…
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| Bulletin Boards to change |
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| Furniture to rearrange |
And it is
in times like these I begin doing some deep yoga breathing. Calm the heart
rate. Think of everything I am looking forward to. I love fall. I love meeting
my new class. I love the possibilities that a new school year brings. I love
helping new groups of students fall in love with books. In thinking of these
positive things I began to relax.
A new
school year – my seventeenth. I’ve got this.
This list looks similar to my list...I have a panic every summer as I start to realize that it is almost time to start again. It certainly sounds like you know what to do and you will get there. Thanks for the link to the great CCSS resources. I love those bookmarks!
ReplyDeleteOh, goodness gracious! I feel the same way. Every time I accomplish one thing in my classroom I remember something I had forgotten. :)
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I start officially in 9 days, but already have appointments this week, Katherine. Arrgh, I know it'll be much fun, but how does the summer go so fast! I know I'll be helping in different classrooms & you who are those 'anchor' teachers work so very hard to begin the year beautifully. Here's to you, and all like you who do that caring. Thank you, & I know you've 'got it'!
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