Back to the Grind

I love being a part time teacher. I come in at 8:30 and by 10:30 I am off to go home and reunite with my little Buchela!

So, ok ok, I can't really call my job a grind!

It looks like I have 12 students in one class and 19 students in the other. Out of the 19 students, six are new! 4 girls and 2 boys.

All on the older side, fourth graders being the youngest and six graders being the oldest in one of my classes.

I don't know the new students yet but I can already see there is a bored teenage look about them.

I expect the class with the 19 students is going to be a handful. I hope I have set the ground rules and demonstrated my seriousness about them pretty firmly today. I usually start out by being very strict and slowly give way as students find their place in the class and understand clearly what is and is not acceptable in my class.

It is good to see my students from last semester. My older students (grade 4 to 6) gave me nice big hugs. The little ones (grade 1 to 2) were very shy and quiet but at the end of the session some of them came up to give me a quick hug.

Sweet!