Busy!

I really do plan on blogging here. This week has just been insanely busy, trying to figure out what I'm doing, and coming up with all the procedures to run my class and a structure/format for how my classes will run, so that I can explain it to the kids on the first day.

Tonight I sat down and hammered out the overview of what I will do each day for the first two weeks in my language arts class, basically creating the structure of the reading and writing workshop. It's a departure from what the other two 8th grade teachers do (I think), but the principal hired me in part because she liked my ideas for reading/writing workshop, so I'm going with it.

Now I need to tackle the structure of my science class. I think it will be a bit easier to organize, since it doesn't have to be quite so structured.

My back hurts from leaning over my laptop for the last 4 hours. But I'm very excited!