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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.
