The FIRST first day of school
Welcome back to A Spoonful of Teaching! I'm so glad you're here! I know in my last blog I explained I would be talking about various communication tools in my classroom, but I felt this post needed to happen first. Let's get started talking about my very first "first day of school" experience... If I had to describe my very first first day of school in one word, it would be “terrifying.” I remember looking for the adult in the room but it turned out it was me. ME?! A 22 year old? In charge of tiny humans?! Scary. Thank goodness it ended up being okay. I was also terribly nervous for many reasons. Obviously, I had never experienced a first day of school from a teacher's perspective. This is not something they teach you in school!! I was also super nervous because my classroom didn’t feel like home yet. I set up my classroom in four days. Yeah, let’s backtrack to the fact that I got my classroom together in four days. That’s 96 hours to set up a fun, open le...