Oh how I love the week before school. I have my classroom to myself; it's like my very own office. So quiet. So at peace. The calm - before the storm!
I was born loving to organize. That doesn't mean that I am good at organization or that it comes naturally to me. It means I was born loving to try to be organized. And during the quiet week before school, that is what I do.
I sharpen pencils, number and label erasers, books and jacket hooks.
I reorganize my cupboards, my bulletin boards, my units.
And then I plan. I create. I have TIME to be creative. I don't have marking and extra-curricular and student needs to distract me this week.
Being in the classroom, in preparation mode, makes me salivate and feel the excitement of September: which, by the way, has always been my favourite time of year since childhood: the promise of a new year, and all the possibilities it holds...
Only this year I won't be buying new school clothes in anticipation and commemoration; rather, I will be growing into my old maternity clothes -- since, yep, indeeedy, I am nearly 12 weeks prego.
And so it begins, a new year cycle, and the developing of another life....
Life is pregnant with possibilities!
Ahhhhh I can't wait to have my own classroom :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't quite made it public yet, but I'm changing careers soon and getting my teaching degree for Language Arts...in Maine! I can't freaking wait. Like you, organizing is in my genes.
Oh S, congratulations!!! That is so absolutely lovely.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe your summer vacation is almost done. Hope it was an amazing time with little E and hubby.
xo
every day i hope for a new blog entry! thank you for apeasing the masses!! best wishes for back to school and best wishes for lil' e being lil' miss independent again!
ReplyDeletep.s. melissa, i went to maine for teacher's college-- it was awesome!!!!!
dudes, thanks for your comments. and e is getting more used to the idea of being little miss independent!
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