Teaching update

Today was the type of day that had me hiding in my room instead of monitoring bus lines. (Is this surprising at this point?) One of the other teachers saw me in the hall and said "you look like you could cry right now" and--I did. ::sigh:: I really don't like being so emotional and easy to cry. But the staff is really supportive and the principal is really trying to help, as are the other fifth grade teachers.

I'm just so exhausted and these kids take everything out of me. The class management was compared to "whack-a-mole"--all I'm doing is putting out small fires all over all at once, trying to stop a wildfire. (Okay, mixing metaphors, but you get it.)

We also had not one but TWO fire drills today. At least the weather was gorgeous (hence two--we should have had one last week, but it wasn't nice enough, and today was THAT beautiful).

This afternoon, there were THREE kids I did not have to speak with for behavior. That's it.

I'm exhausted and kind of discouraged and sad. I could really use some Tim/Cissie fluff?

And OH NO, my favorite American Idol was voted off! :(