It's back to work I go!
Aug. 30th, 2004 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetpageWell, the desks were nice and new (within the last few years, anyway) and showed no signs of giggly behaviour. The books, while not stacked quite to the ceiling, were nevertheless a mess. I spent most of the day sorting through two different sets of math texts, at least four reading texts, two spelling texts, and a writing series that came in fifteen different booklets of about 20 pages each, for which I could find no manual. Also dictionaries and thesaurii which are older than I am, and a new set of each, coexisting on the same shelf. Lots of stuff for different grades, and for the ESL class which occupied that room last year, was shipped out to more appropriate locales. There's still two bookcases full of ESL stuff, but at least the shelves under the blackboard are clean.
All novel study books, and the paperback class library, now occupy a wire rack near my desk. Since the new math program has been ordered and will arrive within days, I stacked the oldest of the outdated ones in another classroom used for only a few periods a day. There is no room for the new set, but they'll be assigned to students within days of school starting, anyway.
I photocopied the "all about me" flip books which they'll do for me in the first day or so, as well as the "sponge" activities - word search, crossword, name puzzle, etc. I still need to photocopy math drill sheets in huge quantities, plan and dig up materials for "get to know you graphs" (easy little math unit that takes about a week and provides lots of marks for report cards; best of all, even the really weak kids can succeed at it if they follow directions and get some guidance from me.) I also went over to the Teachers' College and laminated 29 feet of stuff - at a dollar a foot, it really adds up! This, however, includes a large map of Canada, five posters, one chart, and a whole bunch of little pieces to go on the "welcome" bulletin board.
Tomorrow:
1) Put up bulletin boards.
2) Finish cleaning out ESL stuff into ESL room. Hopefully the ESL teacher will be available to help, but I'm not holding my breath.
3) Organize notebooks for the subjects I intend to teach immediately - spelling, writing journal, math, math journal.
4) Type up my initial French lesson and activity sheet. Yet another "get to know you" activity. I wonder how long it takes for kids to get bored of this stuff? I've never done this much of it before.
5) Photocopy math drill sheets.
6) Fill in names and benchmarks on "math drill sheet achievement chart".
7) Rename "math drill sheet achievement chart." Suggestions appreciated.
8) Find, sharpen, and develop rules for the handing out of new pencils. (I'm thinking two to start the year, one more at the beginning of each month, and I will accept a stub of an old pencil as a trade-in for a new one. If they need one and don't have a stub to trade, they owe me five minutes after school.)
9) Plan a start-up art lesson.
10) Plan a start-up music lesson.
11) Plan a . . . this is getting tedious. Basically, plan my first week.
Now, to go work out! As if I haven't done enough physical labour for one day. . .
All novel study books, and the paperback class library, now occupy a wire rack near my desk. Since the new math program has been ordered and will arrive within days, I stacked the oldest of the outdated ones in another classroom used for only a few periods a day. There is no room for the new set, but they'll be assigned to students within days of school starting, anyway.
I photocopied the "all about me" flip books which they'll do for me in the first day or so, as well as the "sponge" activities - word search, crossword, name puzzle, etc. I still need to photocopy math drill sheets in huge quantities, plan and dig up materials for "get to know you graphs" (easy little math unit that takes about a week and provides lots of marks for report cards; best of all, even the really weak kids can succeed at it if they follow directions and get some guidance from me.) I also went over to the Teachers' College and laminated 29 feet of stuff - at a dollar a foot, it really adds up! This, however, includes a large map of Canada, five posters, one chart, and a whole bunch of little pieces to go on the "welcome" bulletin board.
Tomorrow:
1) Put up bulletin boards.
2) Finish cleaning out ESL stuff into ESL room. Hopefully the ESL teacher will be available to help, but I'm not holding my breath.
3) Organize notebooks for the subjects I intend to teach immediately - spelling, writing journal, math, math journal.
4) Type up my initial French lesson and activity sheet. Yet another "get to know you" activity. I wonder how long it takes for kids to get bored of this stuff? I've never done this much of it before.
5) Photocopy math drill sheets.
6) Fill in names and benchmarks on "math drill sheet achievement chart".
7) Rename "math drill sheet achievement chart." Suggestions appreciated.
8) Find, sharpen, and develop rules for the handing out of new pencils. (I'm thinking two to start the year, one more at the beginning of each month, and I will accept a stub of an old pencil as a trade-in for a new one. If they need one and don't have a stub to trade, they owe me five minutes after school.)
9) Plan a start-up art lesson.
10) Plan a start-up music lesson.
11) Plan a . . . this is getting tedious. Basically, plan my first week.
Now, to go work out! As if I haven't done enough physical labour for one day. . .
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-31 08:29 am (UTC)Re: the "getting to know you" stuff -- remember that everyone in the world's favourite topic is themselves. Kids, especially. I wouldn't worry about having too much of that. :)
How about "Math Quest!" -- unless it's copyrighted... Something inspiring like that for the kids, and if you need to refer to it with more detail for the admin or the parents, you can use the longer title.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-31 01:09 pm (UTC)I still need a language activity for after the "all about me" flip book, but I've got an art lesson, three math lessons, and two or three days' worth of French planned. My bulletin boards are mostly up, and it looks like I should leave the novel study stuff for a few weeks anyway.
This is so tiring.