Daydreaming

Today was the 110th day of school. The school year is more than half way over and there are 19 days till my 3 week long spring break. My co-teacher and I are in a panicky calm because of the amount of assessing we need to do in LESS than 19 days for report cards.

Yet in the middle of all this, I found myself staring at our morning routines. It seems like so long ago when I was teaching the kids how to do the morning jobs and report back to the classroom and wondering if I had bitten off more than I could chew. Mandy and Erica had made this process seem so effortless in the MAC room. Now, my kids can run the whole morning routines by themselves. I'm so proud of them, but now, as I look towards the upcoming school year, I think, I should have taken notes on the beginning of the school year so I could remember what my co teacher and myself did to get them to this point.

Surprisingly though, I was also day dreaming about how my classroom is going to look when we will be able to use ALL of our available space. Maybe we could get an extra table to have two guided reading groups going during centers! The possibilities are endless!

I'm ready for the school year to be over so I can reflect, process, prepare more, take more PD and get ready for next year. And though I am excited, I know, for all the trouble that they are, for all we have gone through, I will miss my students, even the behavior issue ones.