Back to School--One Week Down!

Last week was my first official week back at work. I had three days of "planning" prior and then the children came on Monday. Due to privacy issues and what is acceptable to write in a blog and what isn't, I cannot go into a lot of detail. The children in my class are very sweet. They have a very wide range of abilities and I already know I will need to put in a lot of time to make sure that I am meeting the needs of such a diverse group of kids. So far, I also have a great group of parents. I know I have three stay at home moms who really want to help out. Last week, one mother came in on Wednesday to get my Wonderful Wednesday Work folders in order to send home and she came again on Friday to empty the folders and begin to get them ready for next week. I had a different parent tear out all of the math homework pages from the workbook and sort them by lesson. She did this for the entire school year! I have never had parents come and help out so much, I hope this continues throughout the school year. My principal dropped in to do an observation on Thursday and it went well. We were also supposed to have a fire drill Friday and it was cancelled because of the rain. :) I understand the need for them, but I really hate those things! I really believe this will be a good year. I made it through the fist week and every day was better than the one before it.

Owen has been a good boy at his school. Tuesday, though, I went to dress him and he ran from me. When I caught him I told him that he had to get dressed for school. His response was "bye-bye, no!" I dressed him anyway and continued to get myself ready. A little while later Austin told Owen it was time for him to put on his shoes to go to school and he told Austin, "bye-bye, no, no!" His tone was one of I have already said I wasn't going to go and I mean it. Well.. he went. He cried a little when I dropped him off, but ended up having a good day. I really can't blame him, there are some mornings I just don't want to get up and go either but, Owen has to learn that we have to whether we want to or not. I just got tickled at the fact that he told us that he wasn't going.