First Day!

Yesterday was my first day and it just flew by. The first week or two of a special education teacher who has a 'resource room' who sees kids 30 minutes a day here or an hour a day there is kind of in 'limbo' with no set schedule yet. So for this first week I am just peeking in on some kids and hanging out in the general education classrooms to get to know my kids and observe them a bit.

I started the day with doing some paperwork/organizational stuff and then headed into one of the 3/4 classrooms. They do multi-age classrooms here at NewBrook so there is one kindergarten class, 2 1st and 2nd grade rooms, 2 3rd and 4th grade rooms and 2 5th and 6th grade rooms. I was hanging out with the larger 3/4 classroom that is team taught with 2 general education teachers. That particular classroom has 6 kids in it from my case load so I got a feel for the ones I will be working with. After doing a couple of activities the class got together with the other 3/4 class that is a little smaller in the multi-purpose room (gym, auditorium and cafeteria) to play some fun games. One we played was charades in small groups. I joined one small group and facilitated and even got to act out a few things; going jogging, flying a kite and playing golf :)

I ate lunch in my room with my para-educator and then was planning on hanging out in the smaller 3/4 room but got side tracked with organizing a file cabinet.....so fun, I know! Before I knew it the day was over - it went by SO fast!

I got home around 5:00 but I know that once I get farther into the year and have more to do and plan I will probably be living at school!

Of course, when I laid down to go to sleep last night all I could do was think of things I had to do, obsess over how to do things, what to do and tooooo much. It is hard to shut your brain off to sleep!

So today I got to school a little earlier and will most likely stay a little later, getting a little done at a time. Oh, and I spent the morning with the kindergarteners - they are too cute!