Yesterday I met the other two teachers on the 2nd grade team for the first time! We spent 4 hours together, just chatting and beginning to get to know each other as well as talking logistics of the year ahead. We ate at the shopping center right beside my new apartment complex, which was so weird as that is soon to be my home! Anyway, I am very thankful that Mrs. Getzoff and Ms. Heheman (Terry and Jessica) were willing to meet with me and let me ask millions of questions. They were incredibly helpful and being able to meet them before the actual teacher workdays really meant a lot to me.
I left our meeting feeling more comfortable and informed about the way things would work, but also more overwhelmed as I realized all the things I needed to learn/create/do/plan/etc. Needless to say I left straight from our meeting and headed to Starbucks where I met Iris and had a grande caramel frappucino! My head was pounding which at the time I was alluding to information overload and am now possibly alluding to sinuses. But regardless, my head was spinning and I just needed to sit and process! Dinner with Iris and Brandy ended a day of new beginnings and new friendships with old friends and good times.
After driving about 30 mph down 40 with my emergency flashers on for about 2 hours, I climbed into bed with some teacher books and started reading. Really began to get a better feel for the reading program the school uses, and after all the conversations earlier in the day, things really began to come together.
As I drove to TN today, well as I was riding to TN rather, I planned out my bulletin boards and how I want them to look for the beginning of the school year. My Mom also called her school to ask if I could use their laminating machine if I bought my own laminating paper. They said sure, so hopefully I can get a lot of stuff laminated before getting to the classroom, which will speed up the set up process!
So as I said I'm now in TN spending some time with my Mom and Grandmother. Tomorrow we are going shopping and I'm really excited. Some things on my list include:
-Closed toe comfortable teaching shoes
-Dishes for my apartment
-Cricut (Yes7 months later I still want one.. so I'm gonna go for it)
-Towels
-Teacher Clothes
We will see what else I come up with by the end of the day. After this week I only have two weeks till I leave for Michigan and then things are in full force so it is time to get my act together.
All in all though I'm feeling good about life :)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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My Classroom!
The video below is a quick tour through my new classroom! Give me a couple of weeks and hopefully it will be transformed into a fun place for students to spend 7 hours a day!
When One Door Closes Another Door Opens...
For a couple of weeks now I have been saying, "When I'm done coaching at the elks then I will be teaching 2nd grade in Raleigh." Well.... as of last night around 11 o'clock I am done coaching!
Yesterday completed the city championship meet and thus swimming is over for the summer. The implication of this is that now I really must begin to think about my new adventure ahead of me! I am going to be a teacher! I can hardly believe that the day where I am going to step foot inside my own classroom, with my own group of kids is about to be here! I've dreamed of being a teacher since I was a young girl. I played school with dolls, and bears, and my brother, and anything I could get to pretend to listen to me!
Now, in not too many days I am going to have a handful of 7 year old kids enter MY classroom. The thought is mind boggling to me. Don't get me wrong I am SO excited, and I truly feel as if Elon prepared me for this job. Yet it still doesn't take away the wow factor that comes along with the fact that in 3 weeks I am beginning a "grown up" job and moving to a new city!
I've been so blessed because the families on my swim team have really pulled through and given me TONS of things for my new classroom. I truly have books galore, along with games and teacher supplies given to me from ladies who used to be teachers!
Now in the next three weeks I am going to visit my grandmother, visit my roommate from college in OH, and get my life organized and ready to head to Raleigh. This blog is really just for me to record my journey through my first year of teaching. The funny stories, the stressful moments, the new friendships, and the maintenance of old ones. I want to be able to look back and remember all the things that happen over the next year!
Yesterday completed the city championship meet and thus swimming is over for the summer. The implication of this is that now I really must begin to think about my new adventure ahead of me! I am going to be a teacher! I can hardly believe that the day where I am going to step foot inside my own classroom, with my own group of kids is about to be here! I've dreamed of being a teacher since I was a young girl. I played school with dolls, and bears, and my brother, and anything I could get to pretend to listen to me!
Now, in not too many days I am going to have a handful of 7 year old kids enter MY classroom. The thought is mind boggling to me. Don't get me wrong I am SO excited, and I truly feel as if Elon prepared me for this job. Yet it still doesn't take away the wow factor that comes along with the fact that in 3 weeks I am beginning a "grown up" job and moving to a new city!
I've been so blessed because the families on my swim team have really pulled through and given me TONS of things for my new classroom. I truly have books galore, along with games and teacher supplies given to me from ladies who used to be teachers!
Now in the next three weeks I am going to visit my grandmother, visit my roommate from college in OH, and get my life organized and ready to head to Raleigh. This blog is really just for me to record my journey through my first year of teaching. The funny stories, the stressful moments, the new friendships, and the maintenance of old ones. I want to be able to look back and remember all the things that happen over the next year!
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