I have spent the last week putting the finishing touches on my classroom and getting things ready for the school year. It has been a busy week and school hasn't even started yet!
I have been in meetings all week learning about balanced literacy, meeting my mentor, and going over all the insurance and retirement policies. Not to mention all the errands I have been running picking up things for my room and spending every second of spare time I can find getting it finished.
Tomorrow I am officially a teacher. We have a kick off ceremony, more meetings, and then some last minute time in our room to prepare for Open House, which is tomorrow night. I am a little nervous, I cant lie, but I'm mostly just ready to get started!
Now that I have filled you in on the week I want to tell you a couple things I've learned this week. After all, the blog is called Teach or be Taught.
For starters, when no answer is to be found, chocolate is the answer. Now I know most of you are thinking, "DUH! Who doesn't know that?" And I am not saying I just learned this today, but it has definitely become evident in the previous week.
Today, for example, I ran some errands, and went to my classroom (even tho I said I was taking the day off). Every time I go to my classroom I find a million more things that need to be done. Today I was especially stressed because I wanted to take today off, but it HAS to be done by TOMORROW! So, I'm in my classroom working, knowing I need to get home and spend some time with the bf who has been seriously neglected this week, and I just keep finding things that need to be done. I ask myself, "How am I possibly going to finish everything by Monday?" Then, I remember the Hershey bars in my mini fridge for the Smores I am going to put together in the students' "welcome back sack". I grab a Hershey bar, making sure I will still have enough for the kids, and leave. It didn't get my classroom finished, but it did help lessen my perfectionist stress.
*STRESSED is just DESSERTS backwards*
Another thing I learned, just today actually, is that sometimes you just need a shut-up day. A day where you don't talk, and no one talks to you. Everyone just shuts up! These days don't come along very often, and until today I did not realize how satisfying they are! I am a talker. I like to talk, and I talk a lot. Ask anyone. Not much satisfies me more than people listening when I speak. Today, when I went out to run errands, I accidentally left my phone at home. I went in and out of stores and no one called me, no one text me, and most importantly I didn't call or text anyone. Other than seeing a friend/colleague in the first store I went into, I did not talk to anyone all day. While I was driving home, shoving a Hershey Bar in my mouth, I realized I was pretty calm. In fact, I wasn't really stressed at all and was definitely looking forward to spending the rest of the day on the couch watching 24 with the bf.
I don't know if it was the chocolate or the silent treatment, but I feel much more prepared to begin my CAREER.....TOMORROW!
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