It is hard to believe that my new students will already be in the classroom tomorrow (Monday, August 23rd). It seems like just a week ago I was finishing up summer school and driving back to Minnesota. The shortened summer really flew by.
I feel like I am much more prepared going into my second year of teaching. I have somewhat of an idea of where my students will be at academically and I am much more familiar with the community they are coming from. Events and life situations the students are, and will, go through will not be as surprising or shocking this year; as I have had one year of teaching at Berry to be desensitized.
My schedule is a little bit more crazy this year, as we added art into our students' curriculum and will no longer be releasing early on Wednesdays.
On Monday I will be teaching from 8:00am to 2:55pm with only a 30 minute break for lunch. I will not have any type of "prep" time on Monday. This will lead to some definite challenges when it comes to bladder control. On Tuesday I have a 105 minute block in the morning for prep time, which I am assuming is to make up for there being no prep on Monday. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I will have a 45 minute block of "prep."
Overall the big changes for my students involve the inclusion of an art program and we will be going to the computer lab once a week. Both of these were not available last year so I am pretty excited for the students to be able to have these.
I know it is kinda small (I had trouble uploading), but below is my schedule.
In other exciting news... I will have two new class pets as we start the 2010-2011 school year. I have purchased an Anole (and found one outside my classroom) and have them in a terrarium in my classroom. They eat crickets and meal worms. The pictures are kinda blurry, but you can see them below. I think the students will really like them.
(They had just been fed - notice the meal worm in their mouths)
Well, off to more lesson planning and hopefully finishing up in time to watch a little bit of the Vikings preseason football game tonight. Have a good day!
- Joe
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