Travel Teach Repeat

So I wanted to type this up on Friday but I got WAYYYY to busy. So, here it is Saturday at 12:44am and I'm typing this before I go to bed. The first week of school was pretty good! It's really a learning and adjusting process. Learning the kids names, the new schedule, any new policies that the school may have . Adjusting process because the kids have to adjust to you and you have to adjust to them as in behavior and routine. 

After taking my last child to the bus, I felt accomplished! Got all the kids off and has a spectacular week! 

This is a picture of the door we decorated. The theme was "storybook " so every one had to decorate their door from a book! 

I have about 13 Pre-K kids that catch the bus. It's kind of hard for me to remember everyone's bus number and of course the kids don't remember it. So a teacher gave me the idea to put clothes-pins on them. So I wrote their name and their bus number on a clothes-pin and clipped it in their shirt. I also lined my students up according to their bus number, so if I have 2 students riding  the same bus I would put them together and so on. After we have reached the bus and I have made sure they got on the bus I would take the clothes-pin and keep it, to use it for the next day. 

   This is my first time blogging. I really started this cause I started following other teachers on Instagram and I seen they all had blogs. They would blog about their day or a cool activity they did, something they did with the kids or just how their day went. So I wanted to start my own blog. I am really not a good writer, my grammar is not all that great but hey may be starting this blog and blogging every so often just might improve that!
     A little about myself, I am 31 yrs old, I have been married for 10 years and we have 2 kids together a son that is 10yrs old and a daughter that is 8yrs old.  I have been in the early child care field for 16 years now. I really wanted to be an Actress and a Cosmetologist. I started going to school for hair but I was working in daycare center for 4 years at that point, so I just decide to go to school for Early Childhood Education. I have worked with all age groups, at this point in my life. I love working with high school kids cause they are less independent. I have also owned an in-home daycare for 4 years. I got burnt out with that and didn't want to do that any more, so here I am at Oakley! 
   I was hired at Oakley Elementary a week ago from today! To work in the Pre-K classroom, so today was my first official day working at Oakley! I was super excited to start working with Fulton County period! So when I first arrived I felt like I was thrown to the tigers(our mascot) lol because I really didn't have time to plan anything and to converse with the other teacher on the weeks lesson. So we both arrived at the same time in the morning and we jumped right on in. I had lunch duty that morning and every morning so I went straigt to the cafeteria and started helping kids opening milk  and making sure they knew where to sit. After breakfast I took them to the classroom and we started right away with our morning circle time. Now this is the beginning of the school year so you have to let them get use to you and they have to get use to you so of course everybody was ever where LOL. So we have to put a couple of rules in place so we can have a more controlled classroom ( less chaos ). 
    So we spent most of the day getting use to the kids and learning there names and labelling items. We was following  a schedule from last year that was up, so we laid them down at the wrong time, we laid them down an hour earlier so that threw the rest of our day wayy off, But we improvised. When it was time to go home I took the bus riders and the van riders with me. This was way hectic than I thought. There were way to many kids in the hallway for my little kids to be in the hallway, I didn't want to lose anyone. Sure enough one of the little girls wondered off, but I put a pin on her; that said her name, my name and the bus she gets on. So when the teacher found her, she let me know I found one of your students and I put her on her right bus. I was so upset with myself. So now I have to find a better way to make sure all my kids stay together in large crowds.