You know it's Back to School time when you have to buy supplies for 19 students and everything is sold in packs of 18. Or how about when you realize the school's most "notorious" student has finally managed to get up to your grade level and is on your class list...
Hello Friends! Today we're talking about our honest feelings about Back to School. It's ok; we're all going through it and have those love-hate feelings about all the different aspects of finally saying goodbye to the last day of Summer and walking back into the classroom.
Here's my thoughts about Back to School:
Reminds me of... Back to school always reminds me the week before school started like when I was in Elementary School. I was SOOOO nervous! Isn't that strange how after so many years in school (both as a student and teacher) we STILL get nervous about that first day of school? Does that ever go away? I don't think so. I know picking out that first-day outfit is always the hardest for me... Am I the only one that just can't decide?
Makes me want... Back to school makes me want to pull all my hair out. The worst part is all the professional development meetings we have to attend as teachers, when we NEED to be in our classrooms putting up bulletin boards and setting up desks. But, no! We need to sit through meetings that really sometimes don't seem that necessary; or the information could be passed along through an email.
Drives me to... Back to school drives me to drink more Diet Coke. Friends, I'm addicted to Diet Coke. I admit it. I need a group to join or something because when school starts, I swear, the first thing I do is fill my mini-fridge with Diet Coke. My students look at me drinking it with this stare like... "Please let us go get a drink" and I'm like "Not until Bathroom Break time!" Sometimes I feel bad, but they drive me to drink it.
Makes me need... Back to school makes me need to drive to Target and Walmart to go get a gazillion more supplies because they added a student to my list. Then took one away. Then added two more. Then took three away. Long story short... I still need more darn supplies because the package only has 32 and I have 34 students! I HATE that! Does this happen to you too? Or you need to make yet ANOTHER name tag for the student they added and you ran out of name tags. OMGosh! Or you use yellow notebooks for your journals and no store in your city has yellow notebooks anymore because they're sold out. So you have one student with a purple journal and the rest are yellow. I will stop right there because I could go on and on...
Causes me to... Back to school causes me to learn how to get up before the sun comes up. What? It's pitch black outside and I have to get up? What's wrong with this picture? We're so spoiled in the Summer when we can sleep in.
Makes me think... After all is said and done, when those cute little faces walk through the door on the first day, back to school makes me think I'm so lucky to be their teacher.
I'd love, love, love you to take a little time and share your Back to School feelings! If you'd like to link up, please use the image below. Save it with your information and use it in your own blog post. Make sure to link back to my blog and then come back and join in the link up below!
Until Later My Friends,
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