Today I spent most of the day grading finals and entering grades for last semester.  After a few hours, I finally got all my semester finals and grades in. Whoohoo! I am now officialy ready to start a new semester. Being a Family and Consumer Science teacher means that I am an elective teacher. Students elect to take my classes. Also, my classes only last a semester. Tomorrow starts a new semester and new classes of students for me.

After I got last semester grades in, I worked on getting ready for my new students I will get tomorrow. I made sure I have my little power point ready with my class rules. I made copies of scavenger hunts and first day assignments. I have some returning students; not that they did not pass my class last semester; but they are taking a different class, I teach. Still, I will have over 60 percent of new students. Which means new names to memorize and learning how to pronouce them correctly. I am not very good at either one of these things.

Resolution number one: Try not to mess up new students name for more than one month. If that is still impossible I will give them nicknames that I will remember. The only problem I see, is that not everyone can be,” the little red head girl.”

Gee….

Kidding aside, I will work on this.

Besides, A Small Town Kitchen, being a place I want to talk recipes and couponing, I wanted to be able to talk about being a FACS teacher. I do have some limitations.

I will not post pictures of my students.

If I refer to them by a name, it is an alias name.

I don’t want to use this as a grip session about teaching either. That would be boring and negative and non productive.

Just because I am a teacher and have a masters degree does not mean that I can always spell a word correctly or write with complete sentencs.

I write like I talk, with an country twang, going fifty miles an hour with built in giggle speed bumps.

So, my resolution is to share more about my teaching (within my limitations).

I hope it will be fun!

Wish me luck tomorrow.

I just hope I don’t have 4 who’s and 5 what’s in class.

Who is sitting on the front row, what is sitting in my seat, who belongs here, who’s stuff is where? What, did you say….

You get the idea : )

Becky