First Day

Today was the first day of school! It started as crazily as always: students in the wrong classrooms, non-English speaking parents coming into the room to make sure their child- I don't know - knows they are at school? My students are pretty adorable: 25 eight to nine-year-olds eager to be at school and start a new chapter. They are at many different academic levels. Most seem to be pretty low, but I also have one girl who is reading "Chronicles of Narnia."

The day passed very quickly, but I was still completely exhausted afterwards. Being cheery for so long takes something out of you.

It was also the first day of our conversion from a K-6 to a K-8. I am not the biggest lover of the junior-high crew: they are pompous, egotistical, wanna-be-adults. It's strange having to walk my kids past a bunch of gossiping 13-year-olds. I've had to tell students taller than me to tuck in their shirts... I also hurt my feet by playing tag in fancy professional shoes. I think the blisters are worth the connections I made with my third graders!