Class is now in session

Hey ya'll, So my first week felt like it did the first year I began teaching or the first week of junior high would be more accurate--I felt like I knew nothing and that I was lost most of the time. The first two days I didn't know where things were that my students kept asking for, like the lunch basket to put their lunches in until it was time to eat. I had no idea where the interconnections closet was or the YPP lab, or even the P.E. closet!

I took my students out an hour early for recess on tuesday, I looked at my clock wrong and thought that it was 2:35, when in actuality it was 1:35! I just saw the hand on the 7 and assumed it was time to go...duh! All week from then on when I said it was time for recess when the bells would ring they would ask, "Are you sure?" Teaching math thus far hasn't been that difficult, due to the fact that my students are needing 3rd grade math review, like times tables, place value and 3 to 4 digit addition.

I still don't have an email address, so don't write please. I was just recognized as working at Robert Frost. For those of us that are teachers will are reading this you will understand, but for the others of you reading this just go with it... I didn't have a class assigned to me and I can't get my PG&E goals set online, because apparently there is two of me in the district, one that's still attached to Rolling Meadows and the other Adrianne Merchant is just there, not attached to anything. GRRRR!

My students are fun though--There's this kid Felisi(who is Samoan/Tongan), he's a big kid anyway the other day the bell rand to go home and he just kind of hung around the door- waiting for me I guess. He left when this fourth grade teacher next door teased him and said, " You know Felisi she's married."

It was quite a week

Stay tuned for pictures of my students