August 6, 2008

It's been another busy day for us. We left the house around 8:20 this morning. I needed to get out to work for a while. My plan was to get my furniture arranged and maybe start unpacking things. Then, attend the planning meeting that our principal was having.

Of course I got into a conversation with one of my co-workers that lasted longer than I'd planned. This means that I didn't get much moved before the meeting started. I did get a few things moved, though. I managed to get a movie set up for the kids to watch while I was in my meeting, too.

There were not as many people there as I expected. It was just two of the intermediate teachers, the computer lab teacher and myself with the principal. It was a good meeting and I feel it was very productive. It also managed to help get me more in the mood to go back to work. That and seeing my new math textbooks.

I'm very excited about getting a new math series. The old one I'd used for 9 years. We'd been using it for three years in the district I worked in before coming to this district. I've been with this district for 6 years. Therefore, I'd been using a series I really did not like for 9 years. It feels so good to get to dig into something new, especially something I wanted to begin with.

After the meeting I did move a few other things around, too. I still did not get a whole lot accomplished, but it did get started. And, like I said, I'm getting in the mood to go back to work. That feels good. I like that feeling of knowing that I can start fresh with the beginning of the school year. Getting to start over every year is one of the perks of teaching.

We stayed at my school until around noon. Then, we came back to town and I took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese. I'd promised the kids that we'd do that before we went back to school and that they could spend the tickets they'd been saving up. With the almost 500 tickets they got today, they had 2599 total.

They each spent 1200 tickets. Michaela got a heart shaped bean bag pillow, two tubes of body glitter, and a packet of Lick-a-maid. Caleb got two die cast racing cars and a little toy gun. They both did a great job of making decisions on what they wanted quickly today. I had fun spending that time with them, too. They still have 199 tickets to start over with their saving up again.

The dealership called about my car again today around 3:30 p.m. They had to hand over my van to the company that installed the DVD player because they could not figure out what is wrong with it. They have everything else fixed. But, it seems I won't get my van back today either. Oh well, at least when I do get it back it'll be completely fixed.