List of Thoughts

-I've been in school over a month! My students are starting to realize that they need to be quiet: YAY!

-Many people over the past month have assumed I want to go by Beth. Sorry, that is my mom. I would like to be known as Bethany (or Bot in casual settings) :-)

-We had a meeting on students who struggled to meet the fall benchmarks. The majority of my class are slightly struggling readers. I also have a good amount of students who are getting extra services for math

-I now have help, which I complained about not having before. Now that everyone has the data and their schedules work out, I have the special ed teachers in 3 times a week, the Title I math teachers in 2-3 times a week, the reading specialist in a couple times, and the ESL teacher in a few times a week. It is hard to keep track of.

-I love working with the other 2 5th grade teachers. We spend more time laughing than actually planning

-My students, although talkative and not great listeners, make me laugh every day. Usually something I say sets them off into a stream of jokes. For example, the other day I said "crumb" instead of "crime," so now bread crumbs are criminals and deserve to go to jail. Also, I have a rule that when I pick partners, the students have to have straight faces (so they don't make their partner feel bad if they don't actually want to work with that person). This has turned into a student announcing to have straight faces while walking down the hall. Not sure how that interpretation happened.

-Even though I am exhausted by the weekend, I enjoy going to school and am starting to roll with the punches more
I am especially excited for this coming weekend because it's a 3 day weekend and I'm going to visit some great people in D.C. :-)

-Tonight is back to school/open house night. Pray that it goes well.