'Twas the Day Before Back to School Night
Tomorrow is Back to School Night. My brain is filled with thoughts and plans to make that a productive and successful evening. My slice today will contain the top ten important things in my life:
1. I quit diet coke a week and a day ago. Brain fog has finally lifted.
2. I'm teaching only seventh graders this year. I miss my sixth graders, but I do love my seventh graders. There's never a dull moment.
3. Instagram stories are a new obsession of mine. I make silly and goofy stories and I have way too much fun doing it.
4. For the first year in forever, I have a paper calendar for school that I'm using and loving!
5. I'm only teaching electives this year. It's a whole new world and I'm really enjoying it!
6. Currently, I'm on notebook number 77 and loving it!
7. I read 86% of the Harry Potter series this summer. I only have book seven left.
8. This is my 23rd year of teaching. I just realized that I'm four years away from teaching as long as my mom taught!
9. Lunch is my favorite meal of the day...because of the company.
10. Seventh-graders make me laugh!
Random list of a slice, but it's all my brain could create today. It's a "good enough" day of writing. I showed up. That's better than I did last week...baby steps. What important things are going on with you?
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Making your way to seventh grade, and only electives? Neat and different, and probably a new pace of things, too. Good luck with the night, and the days that folllow.
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I like your list! Re-reading Harry Potter is a to-do for me, too. Sounds like you have a fun year ahead!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you will rock your open house AND this wonderful year filled with adolescent energy and enthusiasm!
ReplyDeleteI hope the open house went well! I am sure that all the parents will love you. I love the pics of your notebooks. You are so organized with the numbering of them.
ReplyDeleteAll of the random bits added up to one super slice, Michelle!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you've been off of Diet Coke for a week now. Hooray for you!
It is great to see what a busy brain you have- makes me feel like I am not alone in that! Here's to your great start! What fun to teach all electives- in theory you have built in buy in!
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What a fun slice, Michelle! Love your love for middle schoolers. A former colleague of mine at our K-5 school saw me this summer at a PD event - he now teaches at our middle school - and told me he would love to have me teach alongside him with at-risk readers if/when one of their team members retires. I'm surprised to tell you this was actually an intriguing thought to me! Who knows what the future may hold? Have a great year.
ReplyDeleteOnly electives? I want to know more!!!
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