School Days

So I have officially completed my first 2 days as a real teacher. :) I'm teaching 6th grade, and I have 25 students in my class with a possibility of more to come! My students are great, but they definitely love to chit chat. It's 6th grade, what can I say!

The first day went pretty smoothly, except for the fact that I was locked out of my room in the morning and couldn't get it to open for the life of me. I eventually got it open with the help of the mother of one of my students. She said she could do it because she was Dominican. :) The first day we pretty much just went over routines, played get-to-know-you games, and established the rules. All in all it was a good day though we had some crazy moments. I'm excited to get this year rolling!

Today was another day of getting to know one another, memorizing names, hearing about the summer, and establishing what the classroom expectations were for the year. The only real crazy thing I did was let my class out half an hour early for lunch (woops!). They were all trying to tell me they were too early, but I just thought that they were telling me it was 5 minutes early and I kept assuring them that it took time to get to lunch so we needed to leave a little early. Finally, after most of the class had left, one of my students asked me why we were leaving at 12 if lunch started at 12:35. This language barrier thing is kind of an issue. So I had the girl summon the rest of the class, and they all came running back to me laughing at their crazy teacher. Fun times! I told them they needed the stretch anyway. :)

I wanted to tell you a bit about the school, but nothing all that interesting has happened so far, so I'll leave the stories for later! God Bless!!