Me, the 5th Grade Teacher!

By God's grace, I have been offered a teaching position at a school in the town in which I live.  This is the same school I was in for my student teaching, and the only school I interviewed with.  After my interview, I was called and told they were going with someone with more experience for this position.  I was extremely disappointed.  Then, to my incredible surprise, I was called a week later and offered the same position I had been rejected for the previous week. I have no idea what happened; I don't really care.  I am just so thankful that I was their 2nd (or 3rd or 4th, who knows) choice.  I don't think that's too bad considering all of the people who applied and interviewed for this job.  I have been blessed!

I have been doing some online shopping, seeing what things I need, and ordering some of it (what I can afford right now).  Today, I finally went to see my classroom and speak with my principal for a few minutes.  I got all of my teaching manuals and now have a better idea of what I need to do to get ready.  I will not be teaching whole group math, but will be teaching language arts.  My classroom is a blank slate at this point.  It has not been cleaned yet from the end of last school year, but I assume that will be done sometime soon.  If not, I am not too good to get in there and clean!    This classroom is where I taught science during my student teaching.  It has its own air conditioner, meaning I can control the temperature to some extent, and it has one whole wall of windows, and an exterior door, so I would be able to get into my classroom at any time of the day without having to use the front door.  Storage may be a problem, but I asked the maintenance man if there were any bookcases available, and he said he would check for me.  If not, I guess that's one more thing I will need to buy.  I am just so happy, I will buy whatever I need to to make it  mine.

Now the class has tables, but I asked the maintenance man for desks and chairs instead, so they should be there soon as well.  He said he was waiting to see what I wanted before he did anything in my class, so now that he knows, he will start working in there.  SO exciting. Now it's time to use my imagination to decide what will go where.  Lots to be done!