First week of School

Hello Everyone,

Well Leah and I had our First, First day of school as teachers!! How exciting it was. The whole day was quite surreal for me in many ways. I`m sure a lot of other teachers or friends can relate to starting a new job and having a great first day and thinking this is just surreal, I`m getting paid to do this. We arrived early to school with a different couple. How early you might ask well how about 6:10AM early. Now you are wondering what time does school start? 8:00 AM. Talk about being early. For all of you who think I can’t be early for anything, eat it!! HAHAHA. Leah went to her room I went to my office and tried working on different things. I had already transferred the equipment I was going to use to the gym and was excited to get in there and set everything up. One catch, the gym is not just a gym and I have no key for the gym so I had to wait until 7:30 to get into the gym. Good thing I was early right. My first class was a bomb. First grade- they showed up 10-12 minutes late and one boy was crying his eyes out. I tried doing a name game with the students, but they were all so shy I couldn’t hear anything they said. Being a reflective person, I decided maybe I’ll do a fun activity with them that will loosen them up. I tried doing the name game bopiddty bop bop. Again the bombs fell. I can’t tell you how happy I was for the first class to be done. My second class was a third grade class with many returning students and they were a ball of energy. I had a lot of fun with them and was thankful that something I planned went decent. I have a short 20 minute break then another two classes. My 5^th grade class was really chatty and didn’t want to listen to each other. They have the reputation of being that group that all of the teachers cringe at. I made it through that class without any major problems. The next class was Leah’s 4^th grade class and what a delight they were. Really the type of kids where you can give them a challenge and they will work together to complete it and there are a couple of kids in there that understand how to sacrifice something so the group can succeed. They were my last class and a wonderful way to end my teaching for my first day. After teaching I have back to back recess duties which can be a little crazy. I ref the 5^th and 4^th grade boys soccer on the first recess and then teach first and second graders different tag games they can play. They really enjoy chasing me! I then get lunch around 12:35 and do prep stuff for the rest of the day. I really like my schedule, at least so far. Well I got to go, but I’ll make another post soon.