Always a First Year Teacher

Thank goodness I didn't change grades, because these are the things that are new this year:

• Reading curriculum (same basal, different format)
• Math curriculum (we are now using Georgia's)
• Word Work (no more spelling tests and lists)
• Lucy Calkins writing (the updated, grade-level version)
• Skyward is our new online gradebook
• KEEP-our teacher evaluation system

It's juuuuuust enough to make me feel like a first year teacher again! In what other professions does this much change happen every year? Is it just teachers??

Talk Like a Pirate?

Only at a school can these things happen on the same day...

• Adults and kids dressed in pajamas
• Adults and kids dressed like pirates (many of them complete with tattoos and "beards")
• Lessons on how to hide you and the rest of your classmates in a closet in case of a dangerous intruder
• Chasing down a child who has run out the door
• Papaya taste-testing
• etc, etc etc!

There is never a "normal" day in an elementary school!

Grown-up Problems.

Student: "Mrs. T, do you actually call your husband Mr. Thomason?"
Me: "Nope, I call him my servant. Hahahaha!"
Crickets. Crickets.
They will understand when they are older :)