Yes it is Wednesday but I have walked around all day assuming tomorrow will be Friday. Happens every week. My Friday teaching schedule is so amazing that I can't help anticipating it super early. (Teach from 8:45-11:45 and the entire afternoon is left free to my desires.) Well since there are still two days left in the week I guess I need to get back into teacher productive mode and consider what my students can accomplish.
Amazingly my seventh graders this year are super motivated, enthusiastic, and competitive. If I had my way I would make everything into a competition! My excitement is written all over my face and I can't help but smile at their achievements. Yes I know it's been less than a month since school started and I shouldn't get ahead of myself, but wow, what a difference a year makes. Last year at this time I was just trying to get my students to do something - anything, during our forty minute period, without breaking into a sweat, freaking out, or yelling about it. One year? One year, and I feel like a different person. Instead of walking in the classroom intimidated by the thought of what the kids might throw at me (literally) they know what is expected. I smile and I laugh, something that didn't enter my mind until way into February of last year.
giggle, giggle, laugh, laugh,
Yay for year two!
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