Back to School

Week one of the school year is officially over and, can I just say, it felt like the longest week on the history of the planet. Seriously, what took so long? Is it because we had the beautiful respite that is Labor Day Weekend to look forward too? Or is it because I repeated myself, literally, 24 times this past week? I wont lie, the first week of school is the worst. I love seeing the kiddies, but as far as lessons go it's all about expectations, classroom behavior, using tools the right way...and it's so very dull. For myself and the kids!

Now, reciting expectations and such is, of course, critical to a successful year, and this year seems like it's going to be a very good year! For the first time while I was setting up my room I had the feeling of, "oh yeah, I nailed it." I consider myself to be very organized (to a near OCD degree) and this year I'm particularly pleased with how I set things up. It only took five years of practice, after all.

This school year is also a quazi-milestone because *sniff* my current fifth graders were my very first set of kindergartners when I started. I've had my first batch of kiddies from beginning to end! Huzzah!

So, overall, I'm feeling very optimistic about this school year. To be fair, I'm usually optimistic but this year, I don't know, it's feeling like a good one!  

The kiddos seem to think it will be a good year as well. I did a school-wide consens-o-gram with them (yes, that means there are over 500 sticky notes involved) on how they were feeling about art this year and, while I don't want to brag, their thoughts were pretty awesome and positive.

So, all in all Internet, there are positive thoughts flowing! It's goin' to be a good year!

Later!

<3 Kate