My New Job!

Since March, I have had 6 interviews at 5 different schools- 3 catholic and 2 public.  I interviewed at Spears (a public school in Frisco) the day Aunt Shanny came to visit with Baby Brendan.  The following Monday the principal called me to offer me the job!  I will be teaching 3rd grade, which I am super comfortable with and excited about. 
Also, probably the best part is I get to bring Gianna with me to this school as a Kindergartner!  I'm glad I'll have that extra eye on her.  I found a cute little Christian preschool/daycare for Elia that is a mile away from Spears. 
It took Frisco almost 4 weeks to get me into one of their new hire orientations to sign all the paperwork, which I did Thursday afternoon.  On Wednesday, right before we picked up Daria, I got to have a peek into my classroom and drop my stuff off.  The teacher who was in my room last year hasn't finished moving all her stuff out, but I can see so much potential already!

I'm so excited I have a window!  I didn't have one at my last full time teaching job.

See all those blue boxes on the table?  That is all mine.  The rest of the stuff is the other teachers. 
I am starting out pretty fresh!

Real Life Sudoku

Some people wonder what teachers do once the bell has rung and the kids are gone.  Its not just lesson planning and grading (although that too, takes a long time).  Its looking at your students and assessing their individual needs and changing your classroom and your actual teaching to accomodate them.  This is a rotation schedule I created so that while they are doing different math ativities on their own, I can pull small groups to reteach math concepts that students don't understand or push studnets who already get it to go the next step.

This took me 15 precious  minutes to do after school on Friday- and its still not perfect.

Open House

Thursday night was Open House for my school. It made me love this school even more. Out of all 21 kiddos, only one parent didn't show up... and she had bronchitis. So you can't fault her for that. It was really fun getting to meet the parents of these students. So awesome that they care so much! This week was sort of crazy trying to get everything ready (ya know, clean the calssroom, get student work up on the bulletin boards etc). I think the parents especially liked the board I put up featuring all of the student's poems to Baby Ardyn. (L's baby).

It was a really long night! I got to school at 7am and didn't get home until 8:30pm. Once home, I had to wait up for Aunt Colleen to get here- and then I went straight to bed! Spring Break is here and this week is going to be packed with different outings, play groups, play dates and time with Aunt Col and daddy. So glad I have this week off!