Today is the last day of PD before school starts on Monday. I will do lots of walking around in my classroom today, but in my effort for cuteness, I am wearing brown flat sandals with gold buckles. It's almost like I'm barefoot.
But the very most important thing about today isn't what I'm wearing, it's what I'm doing. As I walk around the empty desks laying out folders or putting up supplies, I'm thinking about the new students I met last night. Flashes of them pop up in my memory. Names are matching with faces, and I am anticipating the community I will begin to develop on Day One. I look at those books in my classroom library knowingly---they will help me connect with my students not only as readers, but as wonderful individuals who have so much to offer the world.
I look at the notebooks we will write in, and I know they will help me connect with my students through their ideas and thoughts. I will connect with them as well, not only as writers, but as wonderful inviduals who have so much to offer the world.
I look at the bulletin boards, blank for now. But I know they will be filled with my students' passions, projects, and visions.
I'm doing lots of little things. Stapling things. Organizing things. Taping things. But mostly, I'm anticipating and dreaming of the community that will start within the four walls of our classroom and then spread wherever we take it.
Thank goodness I wore sandals!
What I'm reading right now:
Strange Case of Origami Yoda (reread #3) by the awesome Tom Angleberger
Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson (more to come on this special book!)