School started again last week, and it's going well! The kids are fresh and happy to be back with their friends. And they're still content to DO their work, mostly on time! We'll see how long that practice continues!
The 7th graders are wonderful. Smart and curious and excited about science. Oooohhh, what do we GET to do this year in science??!! The 8th graders, not quite as excited, but at least their summer break seems to have slightly diminished their raging hormone induced apathy towards anything that involved brain energy exertion.
I'm also teaching an Advisory class, where I'm the teacher advisor. It's like a homeroom. As long as we can justify it as "community building" or "academically relevant" we can do interesting things like take a trip tot he beach, go to the nearby cafe, go to the park . . . It's fun so far.
I am also enjoying being back at work, using my own mind. And all the hours and hours of work that I put in last year, creating pretty much everything from scratch, is starting to pay off. I don't have to start all over again! Yay! But, of course, there's still much to do. Back to work . . .
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