I was reading one of my niece's blogs about how people make excuses for how they don't have enough time for themself. It dawned on me that I get up early every morning to exercise. But I always go to the computer first, "just to check my email." But then I decide to check everyone's blog and see if they added anything new. Oh, and I might as well check Facebook. Before I know it, it's time to get ready to go to work. Somehow, exercise seems to go by the wayside.
On a much more positive note, I spent quite a bit of time this summer organizing my classroom in case I got a transfer. Well, even though I didn't, it is so nice to easily find everything in my room. I'm glad I took the time!
I got a new student earlier this week and I am getting another new one today. At least this one is a girl. I'm overloaded with boys; 17 boys 11 girls before today. It seems that the district is using our school for overflow. Classes are full at other schools and they did all the reorganization earlier this week. So we pretty much have all the openings this year. It makes for a tough year, getting new students, having them called back to their home school when they get an opening, etc. Oh, and some parents who get sent to us get angry because we are a uniform school (most of the schools in our district are not) so now they have to go out and buy uniforms. Because of course it is the teacher's fault. Oh well.
Chuck has been working on an old VW bus for one of Josh's friends. He's had so much fun doing it. It's nice to see him working on something he really enjoys. He doesn't like the new cars. We even take mine to the dealer for an oil change!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Not much going on
School is so much better this year! The 6th grade teacher is having a hard time, but I like my class. Ella had her first soccer game. Josh had his first game. We are busy, but we love it! It seems like we are getting a lot done on the house, even though there is still a lot to do. We spent Jordan''s 30th birthday in Temecula with his family and Josh's family. I love seeing the two 2 year old cousins together! They are so funny. Both have a good sense of humor and love to play together. We swam and just hung out. It was a great day.
I think the toughest part of this school year is having a new principal who has never been involved with an elementary school He was a wood shop teacher, worked at one of the high schools and then the adult school. So basically, he counts on all of us to let him know what needs to be done. It does make all of us feel like the plan is to close our school so it really doesn't matter who the principal is. He's a nice guy and easy to get along with. It's just that we (teachers) have to do a lot more planning to let him know things need to be done. Reorganization is never fun, but he really had a tough time with it because he's never had to call parents and tell them that their child is going to be going to a new school starting Monday. And for some reason, our district office really decided to make things difficult. We have some kids leaving who have been at our school for more than a year but they are the last one in. On top of that, a few of them have siblings at our school and the siblings are not leaving. It is a mess! Maybe the district made this decision based on the fact that they expect us to be closed next year anyway. Who knows. Oh, and one of the families who have a sibling leaving and a sibling staying just lost their dad a few months ago. I feel for the mom. Now that I am thinking about it, I think all of the district people who make these decisions have never been in an elementary school. We've had a big change in the district office over the last couple of years due to deaths. Everyone who replaced those people came from the high schools except one had one year as a principal at the elementary level. Sorry, just thinking out loud how this all came to be.
We had planned to go to Arizona this weekend but Bailey and Cole both had sleepover plans so we decided to make it another weekend. I miss the kids but not the drive on a Friday night!
I think the toughest part of this school year is having a new principal who has never been involved with an elementary school He was a wood shop teacher, worked at one of the high schools and then the adult school. So basically, he counts on all of us to let him know what needs to be done. It does make all of us feel like the plan is to close our school so it really doesn't matter who the principal is. He's a nice guy and easy to get along with. It's just that we (teachers) have to do a lot more planning to let him know things need to be done. Reorganization is never fun, but he really had a tough time with it because he's never had to call parents and tell them that their child is going to be going to a new school starting Monday. And for some reason, our district office really decided to make things difficult. We have some kids leaving who have been at our school for more than a year but they are the last one in. On top of that, a few of them have siblings at our school and the siblings are not leaving. It is a mess! Maybe the district made this decision based on the fact that they expect us to be closed next year anyway. Who knows. Oh, and one of the families who have a sibling leaving and a sibling staying just lost their dad a few months ago. I feel for the mom. Now that I am thinking about it, I think all of the district people who make these decisions have never been in an elementary school. We've had a big change in the district office over the last couple of years due to deaths. Everyone who replaced those people came from the high schools except one had one year as a principal at the elementary level. Sorry, just thinking out loud how this all came to be.
We had planned to go to Arizona this weekend but Bailey and Cole both had sleepover plans so we decided to make it another weekend. I miss the kids but not the drive on a Friday night!
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