My first week at school

Well, the first week at school has not been too bad. I officially start at 11:00, but I am usually there by 10:30. My first two periods are resource time, but since it is only the first week we aren't taking the kids out of their regular classes yet. So I have been using the time to read files and organize the stuff left by the other teacher in a way that makes sense to me. Sharon (our EA) and I have been working on the resource schedule, which is like...well, I can't even think of an appropriate simile to describe how hard that is. We have to co-ordinate when kids are taken out of their regular classes, but they can't miss this, and their mom doesn't want them to miss that, and these two can't come at the same time because they're doing different programs and...blah. Thankfully Sharon has lots of experience with this. At the end of the day I teach grade 3 and 4, which is going quite well, except I had forgotten how smart alec-y grade 4 boys are. Or at least they're seeing how far they can go with me. Which is not very far.
Connor has been going to Brieanne's this week and he has been having a great time. They have a 4(?) month old chocolate lab named Dixie and she is Connor's new friend. At first he was scared by her barking and would cry heart-wrenchingly, but I think he got over that quickly. Dave usually picks him up in the afternoon and I'm home by 4:30. It was so nice to see Connor waving to me from the front porch yesterday when I got home.

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