I survived my first day of REAL teaching; all by myself with nobody watching over my shoulder !

Spent the week before school started scrubbing the classroom and making it all nice and pretty. I've already rearranged the tables a few times and no doubt will continue to do so until I work out an arrangment that works best.

My goal for the day was to end the day breathing, with a pulse, all limbs intact and senses functioning.... Anything else was a bonus ! Only injury was my voice is a little sore; been told already I have to go and get voice PD from one of the other staff ! Got a few kids that are going to be "challenging", but the vast majority seem really nice - just need to work on establishing a bit more control in working towards how I want things to be.

Teaching wise I feel very out of practice and feel really aquard - the words aren't quite coming out the way that I want them to. Be glad when specialists start next week - everyday I've got time set aside for specialists so be nice to have a break from the stand up side of teaching and work on the organisation side of things. Hopefully I'll get myself (and the kids) into a good routine and all will fall into place by the end of next week.

Till the next exciting installment....


P.S: The photo is of my desk - I've got another photo of my actually teaching, but I need to get a copy of it scanned. Watch this space !!!