Tick Tock

As the last minutes of today tick away, I'm reminded that in 2 weeks I will be starting my first day as a preschool teacher. I am SO nervous! And yet, I am super excited at the same time. Preschool is a fun age and the learning will happen along the way. A coworker of mine once told me--"Children will learn in spite of you!" That's the best teaching advice I have ever been given! It's comforting to know that even though I am not (nor will I ever be) a perfect teacher, kids will learn something from me each and every day. This is especially comforting as I look at my preschool class list...no matter what I do, right or wrong, those kids are going to grow and learn and succeed in my classroom. Now obviously, this doesn't mean I can just show up and sit back each day...I have A LOT of learning to do myself...but it does take the stress off a little bit. 

Today I created my daily schedule. Now, whether or not it will stay the same, I am not sure...we have a preschool board meeting on Thursday night. This will be very helpful...we are going to decide what to do with our preschool for the year. Our biggest dilemma is that the area school district opened "free" 4k this year. So our 4 year old program is struggling big time! We have 2 four year olds enrolled as of now. Our 3 year old program is doing well. We are capped at 10 kids and do not currently have a waiting list. In past years, they have done 2 sessions of 3's and one session of 4's. We are going to be working out what will happen to the 4's session...since there are only 2 of them, I don't see it being a good use of their $ to pay me to be there 3 days a week (3 hours each day) for 2 kids. But I guess we will see what the preschool board has to say on Thursday. If you ask me, I think we need to do combined 3's and 4's. It just makes sense at this point. 

I don't have much for progress pictures yet...I am trying to figure out the crazy laminating machine...it has a LOCK on it, and no one knows where the key is...hopefully tomorrow that will be fixed! As soon as I finish the walls and my laminating, I will be posting some more pictures!