First week down

Well my first week has come and gone with many highs and lows.  I have a pretty great group of Kindergartens this year and survived two whole days this week with zero tears. 

I found out today that I am losing my EA for the afternoons which is going to make life interesting getting kids ready to go at the end of the day.  Since we are in a temporary classroom we have no lockers, no boot room, so it's a little crazy at the end of the day getting everything from where it was stowed, plus we have to go out the high school doors so the kids have to be through the halls before the bell rings or they get trampled.

In my other life, I am settling into the swing of things.  This year I am teaching French (scary as I haven't done anything with French since university) but it surprising how much of it is coming back to me.  Most of my kids I taught last year so it's not much of a change or getting into routines as they all know mine. 

Today I'm happy to have been able to sleep in a bit and now I'm off to spend the day with my 3 amazing kids and try to get some sanity back in my house and tackle the laundry that has accumulated.

Getting ready to go back

Well I have been back in the classroom a few times over the last couple of weeks.  We officially start back next Tuesday and kids don't come till the 4th.  I'm still in my temporary home till my new room is finished and since it is fairly small there isn't a whole lot I can do for now.  Here are a few pics of my temporary home.

Here goes

I'm new to this whole blogging thing, so forgive me until I get the hang of this.  I have two weeks before I start back to work ... two weeks to get as much time in with my kids as possible, two weeks to finish getting two classrooms ready, and two weeks to polish my French (it's been a few years since I've had to use it or teach it). 

I'm in a bit of a panic this year as I was supposed to have a new Kindergarten classroom to start this year off, but they have discovered issues and I will now be starting the year in a studio space which is about half the size of a normal classroom.  I spent the last two months of the year in this space so I will make it work, but I am really looking forward to a brand new space, fingers crossed it will be ready by the end of September.