Meet The Teacher: I'm Excited & Oh Yeah, We're Having A Giveaway!!!

Last year for some reason I wasn't feeling beginning of the year, dunno why, hmmm? This year:

1. I wasn't able to get into my classroom for some time (cleaning & waxing of all the floors).
2. I moved across the building into another classroom.
3. A lot of furniture got moved out of the room, so I had to hunt stuff down.
4. It wasn't until last Thursday that the furniture I finally got was able to be moved into their new homes (newly waxed tile floors, custodians get picky when you scratch it up :-/)
5. Still had a cabinet's worth of stuff in my old classroom, meaning I still had to move it to my new room and find homes for that stuff too. (Teachers are such hoarders!)
6. Then to organize and arrange desks and tuck things away until after Meet the Teacher night.
7. I did a lot of my copies for MTT at home, so at least that was taken care of, but oh the sorting into packets to put into folders was ****!
8. I finished said packets, and last minute frou frou-ing of my classroom & myself right in the nick of time.

Enough venting about it. Despite it all, I was actually able to pull off a pretty successful MTT night. The 12/20 kiddos & parents that showed up were so nice and supportive of their kids. I even have some pretty funny parental units that like to er hem give their kids/teachers/spouses a hard time. 

It really warmed my heart that a couple of staff members wanted me for their child's teacher, that says a lot and I'm completely humbled by it. While I was only assigned one of the kids, the other wound up in another awesome teacher's room, cuz our grade level is all crazy amazing!

My feet are killing me, a sign of things to come next week when I'm on my feet 8 hrs everyday instead of just 2-6. I'm really looking forward to these kiddos and all the learning adventures I have in my brain!

Since I'm feeling all warm & fuzzy right now, I'd like to remind everyone of a pretty cool little giveaway we're having. August 17th this year was the blog's one year anniversary. To celebrate, 2 lucky peeps will win either a Thirty One Gifts' Wristlet or a Classroom Friendly Supplies pencil sharpener, you know the one EVERYONE has been praising all summer long! Click here to enter!!!!

Here's to an awesome year! Good luck everyone & I'll be seeing you around during the year :)

~Darnee~