So my first two days went wonderfully!

I teach fifth grade btw, with 28 students - 18 of which are boys! They're an active class, but fortunately I've learned a lot of techniques for class management and things are going very well. It's going to be a great year. I'll have to post more with some of the fun things they do.

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I'm teaching fifth grade tomorrow!! First day of school!!


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I tried to color my hair this color:
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So I've been working like a dog! Both in teaching summer school and getting my new classroom ready. And house-sitting, dog-sitting, and kitten-sitting. And almost literally nothing else.

I did see Brave. Perfection. Loved it. So much good stuff!

My classroom is going to have an ocean theme, so I've been gathering up all my seashells and make ( Read more... )

Today I'm going to my new classroom and organizing things! They painted the walls either yesterday or the day before, so things will be ready for me to start putting things in order. The teacher before me was only here one year and she did her own thing so all the stuff from the previous teacher is still here - and she had everything! So many ( Read more... )

I got a job teaching fifth grade at my old school! I'm super excited (and scared and nervous and lazy and pumped and weird and everything)! It's definitely going to be strange working with some of my old teachers, but I've been subbing a lot and working in the after school care, so that makes it easier. I'm still waiting for the old teacher to move ( Read more... )

My 6'8" giant of a dad just went to the doctors.

Mom just told me that he's now 6'8.5"

My response.


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If you love horses and find genetics interesting, check out this new game I just found!


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Anyone of my fabulous LJ friends doing NaNoWriMo? If you, find me and add me as a friend!!


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