Tomorrow I go back to work!  Three days left to finish getting my room ready before the students come.  I’m excited but nervous at the same time.  I am looking forward to this year because I know sooo much more now.  Last year I felt blind.  I had no idea what was to come during the year or how to do anything!  I felt lost most days even with a helpful co-worker.  In the beginning I felt like noboy really wanted to help me out or tell me important information about the first days of school and school policies.  I guess I finally learned how to ask the right questions to get good answers out of my co-worker in the room next to me.  This year I know what to expect throughout the year so I am excited to do a better job.  I feel like I can do a much better job planning each week because now I know what the students are expected to know for each unit.  I attended a great workshop this summer where I got a lot of ideas to use in my classroom.  I just hope I can implement everything!  I hope these ideas help my students.

Even with all the excitement I’m still nervous.  I don’t know who my students are yet or how many!  I’ve been told 3rd grade has the largest numbers this year!  That’s scary!  I’m so scared I’m gonna get the crazy behavior problems again this year.  Last year I had some terrible kids.  I’ve never seen kids act like that before.  My class as a whole was actually well behaved but there were 2 that I could not handle!  They both ended up transfering to another school before Christmas though! :)  So the second half of my year was great!  I’m so used to having those kids now I am nervous getting a whole new bunch of kids.  I will have to teach them all over again how to behave! AHH!  That is hard work.  Well I’m off to get ready for tomorrow!  I will post again soon to update on my new class!