Blogging is a lot of work! I've been trying to create my own products for my classroom, but I am one of those teachers that falls completely in love with teacherspayteachers products and then lose sight of what I was planning on doing.
At this point, I've done some revamping of our school's curriculum and my own way of planning for the year. I started planning for next year (eek!)! This will make my life so much easier. It is like my own personal bible of curricula.
I've also been working on being more organized about the way I organize all of the products that I've found or other teachers have shared with me. I not only made my curriculum timeline, but I tore apart our regular curriculum (which is extremely confusing) and made a list of the main ideas that we will be teaching and the activities that I have to go along with each.
Luckily, I have a great team of 7 other kinder superwomen to help me out! They are simply amazing. We get the chance to meet once a month for an entire day and hash out the kinks and work on developing new assessments. We are a town that comes up with pretty much all of its own stuff. By stuff I mean, schedules, curriculum, books, guided reading materials, math activities... You get the picture, we do it all! It seems overwhelming at times, but I really do enjoy having some control over what I get to do with my students. I've found that there are many schools that don't get that opportunity and they are told what to do for every second of everyday. I could NEVER teach like that, it just isn't who I am. I like to dive in, make a mess and then clean it up later.
That is all for tonight, I have a very excited puppy who needs to go for a walk!
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