Only Millard Fillmore and Bad Airconditioning ruined it.

Published on August 8, 2006 By InBloom In Misc

Today was the First day of School for me. To tell you the truth, my summer vacation flew by, but hey, at least I got some needed rest.

One change this year is that I am now the Social Studies teacher (replacing the old S.S teacher that moved to another grade level). Frankly, I am looking forward to it. 5th Grade focuses on U.S History, so I am going to enjoy teaching U.S Geography, Goverment, History, Economics, Current Events, and Citizenship. I told the kids that it may not be the most exciting subject in the world, but it is SO interesting to learn about how this wonderful country of ours came to be. Being that the kids are old enough now, we are going to be discussing more mature subjects like slavery and what really happened when the Americas were discovered...and other subjects of that nature.

Anyway, going back to the first day, it went well for the most part. The kids were cooperative and most seemed very eager to get back to class. We did several fun activities and got to know each other a little bit. I also got a big surprise at the end of the day when the computers I got through a grant proposal were delivered to my classroom. I love them...so sleek and handsome!

About the only things that ruined my first days were the fact that the air was not working properly (it got fixed the very last hour of class), and the fact that someone noticed the 13th president missing from my Presidents wall display.

I had gone in on Saturday to work on this display and I was SO proud of myself for putting up all 43 presidents nice and neatly.
I was all smiles looking up at my finished work when lo and behold, I noticed good ol' Millard Fillmore's picture lying on the newly waxed floor. I don't know how he escaped me, but he did. I should have gotten upset, but I laughed instead...it's just so typical of me to do a scatter-brained thing like that. Well, I was SO exhausted on Saturday (I had worked on my room and another teacher's room who needed help) that I decided to put off fixing this mistake, thinking, 'Gosh, no one is going to notice this on the first day of school, anyway!" Well, guess, what...yep, a smart as-a-whip boy took the time to observe them and say, "Ms. ______, Abraham Lincoln is NOT in the right place...something's missing!"

I could have made up some dumb excuse, but I didn't. "Your teacher here forgot to put up a president. Don't worry. It will be fixed soon," I responded.

Maybe I should get to that first thing tomorrow.

Time for Beddy bye.

Comments (Page 2)

InBloom

on Aug 13, 2006

Tova
~~Tell me what was wrong with old math? Heh. It had a lot less steps.~~

I tell you one thing, it gets frustrating when we're asked to try this new program and that new program...we had a really good Math program going for six years at my school, and this school year, we are being asked to try something different.

I just hope it works out.

Tova7

on Aug 13, 2006

I just hope it works out.

Good luck....

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