....ready

There are so many things going on right now that I just can't believe how fast this year has flown by.

It seems like just yesterday that I was moving my entire room to a different hallway right before school started...new room, new grade, new team, new TEKS, TAKS...I mean...I really thought I wouldn't make it through the year. It was definitely a day by day gig. My kids were...wonderfully, uniquely crazy...to say the least. Yet, by the grace of God...we all survived. And most of my kids are ready for next year - wherever that may be for them.

I, too, am ready for the next school year. As of now (which I know that it could all change come August), our team is set. We are losing two people from our team, yet gaining two amazing people too. I am still staying self-contained...which I might add is kind of crazy, but...I'm just the kind of crazy that happens to enjoy having 20 little bodies in my classroom. I am excited because not only will I be teaching them, but I will also have a student teacher this fall - a totally new concept to me. I just hope that I am as good of a mentor to her as mine were to me. I haven't updated her on the changes yet. I need to do that soon. Last time I had emailed her, I was just going to be teaching math and science next year and teaming with the amazing Brooke...not anymore though. I am super thankful that I do get to stay in my classroom and am not having to move. I was kind of dreading the thought of moving all this stuff again (and so soon). My room will be going through a makeover though because I am definitely getting new furniture - so that's a good thing!

Things are definitely changing - and I am so ready for some of those changes - Lord willing that is.

And I'm totally ready for summer - which in teacher words just means that I'm not working with 20 kiddos daily. It cracks me up that people think we don't do anything during the summer...I mean...if people understood how many trainings we go to, all the preparation that goes into getting ready for the next year and that they all happen during the summer...that might change their mind about this job being a 10-month gig.

All I know is that I'm ready. Ready for this year to end. Ready for the summer. And DEFINITELY ready for all that this next year has in store...whatever may come!