First Day of School

Even though this will be my fifth year of teaching and my class role doesn't look bad at all, I am getting a little nervous about the first day of school. I get so nervous that I sometimes feel like I'm the one going to the third grade. I know the importance of starting off the year being stern enough that the students take me seriously, but at the same time, I don't want to seem scary to the children. In all my years of teaching, this has never been a problem, but I still worry about it every year.

With that being said, I have begun the preparations for August 9th. I got SO much done at Make -n- Take today and am planning to go set up my classroom later this week. I have also begun to mentally prepare and am trying my best to get back on schedule with going to to bed on time and waking up bright and early. As much as I love summer vacation, towards the end of it, I start to get ready to go back to work and can't wait to get busy teaching my third graders!!