Loopy!!

Welcome back to a brand new school year!! If you followed us last year, we were in Kinder and we looped up this year to 1st Grade! If you didn't follow us feel free to start from day one to get to know my little munchkins and their adventures.

This blog will follow us, which many of you already do, through a new adventure. This year it's a year of looping adventures. Looping is when we move with our same munchkins from one grade level to the next. A bunch of us do it at our school. I had these babies in Kinder and now we're 1st Graders!!!

I do this blog for my own sanity and don't care about spelling errors, punctuation or if I make sense! haha So if you'd like to continue with us into our 1st Grade journey...sit back, relax, grab a snack as we travel through another year. You may laugh with us or cry with us!

Today was the first day of inservice for me. I wasn't quite ready for it! I know, I know... after 6 weeks off I should be ready. ~Nope! I did have a little anxiety. That anxiety this morning turned into some red little spots...hmmm...mosquito bites from the night before? ~Wait, the spots turned into larger welts then those welts started to looked like parts of a map...they were spreading on my hands and legs! ~AHHHHHH!!! Hives!!! Crap!!! From zero to 60 seconds I was on the verge of looking like a freak!!! Benadryl to the rescue!! .....eek! Wait!!! If I take Bendadryl won't I get drowsy and fall asleep during the inservice?? Yes, possibly. Hmmmm....might not be a bad idea! heehee Well, I found "non drowsy" and took that! Whew! It doesn't kick in right away but it helped. I haven't broken out in hives because of nerves or anxiety in such a long time...can't really remember the last time. Why would I have anxiety or be nervous about going back to work??? I still don't have an answer to that question. I don't feel that anxious, most of these munchkins are mine from last year so...??? Who knows why? I'm already anticipating the hives tomorrow too which is not a very positive way to think. I jinxed myself because I'm starting to get itchy as I type. You're probably scratching now too! haha

The morning started off great! Seeing everyone was nice but it felt like it was just last week we ended the year. Our administration had a wonderful outdoor breakfast for us. Yes, mosquito's and all! haha What did I care, I had the hives! A few mosquito bites would just blend in with my lovely hives. heehee We had yummy menudo, fruit, bagels, and pan dulce! Yummers! I could only do the menudo though. Yummy!

After breakfast I was told by our clerk I started only with 11 munchkins for the year...yikes!!! Today I now had 17! Whew! So much for looping when half my class moved!! There are benefits and drawbacks in looping like in anything we do. It's a plus to loop when you have your entire class. You literally pick up where you left off, you know exactly where each child is, and they know the class routine. Now that half my class is new I feel like I have to bring out the mini boot camp drill! I was told we got a bunch from another school because they were behavior problems. ~Great! Ship them down to us! That's ok, the other kids will help me whip them into shape! I'm not quite sure who is returning and who is not. I'm crossing my fingers for my favorite characters of this blog to return! heehee I should know on paper by Thursday but not until Monday will I be for sure who returns when I see their little bodies walk through that door. I'm actually excited to see my little babies!! They should be taller and some toothless! heehee

The first day is so hard but we were eased into things and covered the do's and don'ts of our handbook. It's so sad that we have to be reminded that we can't date students and if you do you have to wait until they are 21! Come On!!! I know there are some sickos out there but who thinks about dating their student's or any student!!! I don't care how old they look or act they're kids! Eeek! But then again there may be that one sicko teacher! ~Creepy!!

We had lunch on our own which was such a treat!! A teachers lunch period is usually 30 minutes, minus time walking your munchkins, making sure they have their tray and sit down so that 30 minutes usually turns into 15 min if we don't start out early. During our inservices we do look forward to lunch on our own because we can eat like adults! No slurping or swallowing food in 2 bites...well some of us still do those things due to hard habits to break..haha! Ok maybe we slow down just a little when we're around other adults or in public places! heehee

The afternoon was spent at our area feeder High School. We were to meet in the gym and boy oh boy was it HOT in there!!! We sat on wooden benches squished with sooooooo many teachers in there that it was miserable!!! I still have a headache!!! They had a guest speaker which no one could hear because the sound system was horrible! We sat and melted in this high school gym as someone spoke and we caught every other word of her presentation. Ugh!!! Everyone was fanning themselves and the presenter felt our pain and stopped and told those in the nose bleed section of the gym to move down to the floor where it may be cooler! How sad! Then we were sent off to a "breakout session" which was just splitting everyone up and sending us off to classrooms to go over what the presenter was talking about. ~Oh so that's what she was saying!!! The headache got worse but the classroom was nice and cold, a little snack, and WATER!! In the gym I felt like I was starting to see a mirage or maybe I was just daydreaming?! heehee

Tomorrow we ALL, the entire district, meet at the Don Haskins Center for our hoopla! We always wear matching school tops and this year for some reason we're doing Nike football jersey's. The colors of the jersey match our feeder pattern colors which are navy blue, white and a little silver. It's actually a cute jersey with a #1 on the front and our school name on the back...but....I know what some of you are thinking when I mention the colors...football jersey...ugh! Cowboy colors!! Ugh!! Some teachers were so proud because it matched their Cowboy jersey's...ugh!! No I'm not a Cowboy fan!!!! Skins for me!!! I had to snap them into reality and remind them it didn't have a star or anything Cowboy on it!!! haha Ok, so I was consoling myself that it was NOT a Cowboy jersey I was wearing! Heehee We actually look cute when we tried them on!... Yes you boys out there are saying jersey's aren't supposed to be cute!! Well we did look cute, just missing the shoulder pads! haha

Tomorrow will be an adventure getting the entire district together and let's see who they bring in to be our guest speaker! I'm taking my own water this time! heehee Stay tuned for more adventures!