READY, SET, but don't make me GO!

     The students start school in ONE WEEK!  The first teacher workshop for MSAD 35 is Thursday, so today I decided to go into school and get my classroom ready.  I dropped Sage off at daycare by 8:00, made the drive to Eliot and stayed as long as I needed (which ended up being until 5:15).  I am happy to say that I feel like my room is in good shape and pretty much back together.  I have a few posters to put back on the empty walls, curtains to wash and put up, bulletin boards to fill, folders to organize and then actually plan out what I'm going to teach.  My classroom may be ready, but as usual I am just not mentally ready.  I know once Tuesday comes around the routine will feel comfortable and I'll get right back into it.  I guess that means that tomorrow I should focus on summer read: Rigor is NOT a Four- Letter Word (only 100 more pages to go by Thursday)!!  Goodbye summer vacation - you will be missed!

My desk - one of the few times it will be nice and neat!

Blank bulletin board for now - and my school library.  All of the books are scanned into Bookpedia this amazing program I found to track borrowed books!

A few of the blank walls that need some lovely math posters!

What the Function?

Funny/Embarrassing thing happened to me today...

During first period, I was teaching my Algebra class about functions, we talked a little about domain & range and then I went into explaining f(x). Everything was going great until one of the times I went to say "function" I did not pronounce the n quite so clearly. I of course realized it, and TRIED to continue teaching, but one particular group of students started giggling. As soon as the kids started giggling I had to stop and kind of regroup before moving on. The BEST part was that the Assistant Principal happened to be sitting at my desk doing one of his regular "pop-in" observations. I was of course REALLY embarrassed and I am sure that my face was BRIGHT red! I just looked up, he gave me a funny little smile and then I continued teaching as if nothing happened. Needless to say it didn't take very long for the other teachers on my team to find out about it and have a good laugh/give me a hard time.

Fortunately, when I saw the Assistant Principal later we were able to joke about it as well! I saw him in the hallway during lunch. He mentioned that he hadn't done much work with "f of x" lately, but that when he was in school "they were called functions!" The jokes of course continued through out the rest of the day as other teachers around the school heard about my lovely little blunder!