My Summer is Officially Over!

I am having the back to school woes!!!! It all started a couple of weeks ago with ELPS training which was pretty good. I got a lot of good ideas to use with my ESL students. The following week was Math Team Planning. It went really good as well. My new 6th grade team is awesome!!! We got the first three six weeks on the calendar and got all of the lessons, quizzes and a couple of tests done for the first six weeks. We call ourselves the "old" team. We are the oldest of the math teachers at the school. I also stayed a couple of extra hours and put my classroom together. I am so glad I did, it makes going back the next week so much more relaxing.

This last week all teachers had to go back to work! We did a ton of training and have a lot of good, new things to look forward to this year. A new dicipline design for greater consistancy with the principals sounded really great. Also a full 52 min lunch for each grade level!!! Of course that comes with some extra duties for us...lunch duty one day a week and lunch tutoring one day a week as well. I think this is going to be a great year, with all of the new changes. Orientation went well, I had 50 parents that signed in and I know even more were there. All in all I am looking forward to my new challenge as 6th grade math lead and to having my incoming 6th graders to welcome on Monday...wish me luck!!!