It's Like the First Day of School!

So all summer long I've been reading blogs.  Blogs of friends, fellow teachers, family...  And I started thinking, hey - this could be fun!  I couldn't decide what exactly I wanted to base my blog on.  Since my mind is as organized as library shelves, I didn't want to....er, COULDN'T just start posting.  I needed a basis, a theme to write about.  And then it hit me - why not create a place to share the goings on of my preschool classroom?! (And of course, since I will have already started a blog, I will probably slip in some of my life's goings on too... :-)).

School for most teachers and children is starting soon (if they haven't said good-bye to their summers already).  I head back to begin our teacher trainings, staff team-building, and home visiting on Monday.  And of course, the ever-so anticipated preparing of the classroom....labelling, organizing, arranging, decorating, lesson-planning, the list goes on and on, and on.  And yet, it never feels 100% completed by the day the children come!  I will have two weeks to prepare for the bright new (and some returning) faces of this year's class.  Now, to most public school teachers, I'm sure they would love to have two weeks to prepare at school, on the clock.  Notice I said "home visits"....these will take up just about every second I have during this two weeks, that I'm not in a staff training or meeting of some sort.  My two weeks will be quickly diminished, so time management and strict planning is a key factor here...

Until Monday, I do have some fun things planned to wrap up my summer vacation.  I'll visit the local fair, Portage County Randolph Fair, tonight for the derby with a very good friend.  And the whole family will return on Saturday for fair food, fun, and games.  The fair is always a bittersweet event...  On one hand, it's the fair!  On the other hand, it means summer is coming to an end.  But that end brings the brightly colored leaves of fall, apple crisp, apple cider, and my husband's personal favorite - football!