Thursday started off with us going through the results of a climate survey we took last year, which basically said we were unhappy with the hours of the school day (8:00-4:00 which they shortened this year to 3:30) and unhappy with administration. They said that they are going to work really hard to change those results.
Next we had new student/parent orientation which is always fun, I got to see some of our new students and even some old ones who graduated in the past 2 years.
Finally Thursday afternoon we sat down and sorted out our classes. Unfortunately, my admin decided that they were going to ability group. They built in double blocks for struggling students and everything. Sooo I guess we are just going to have to make the best of it. I have to say I really like the groupings of kids that we made personality wise. One of the things I love about working at my school is knowing all of the students. I will have 4 new 8th graders and 6 new 7th graders, but hopefully they will fit right in.
The only other thing I am nervous about besides the ability grouping is that my classes are only going to be 48 minutes long. On Monday I will get one of my 7th grade classes for a double class, on Wednesday the other 7th grade gets an extra class and on Friday the low level 8th grade gets an extra class. I'm not sure how I will plan these classes yet, I'm thinking the second class will be a big remediation class, maybe doing stations.
Now to the fun stuff, I finally finished my room and I LOVE it! My room colors are what I call boring beige and puke-y green, so I just love to put as much fun color in as possible.
Here are some pictures then I have to get into some serious planning! I hope to do another post with my first/day week plans for MS Sunday Funday!
I didn't take a picture of the other wall with the door because that is going to be my Math Word Wall, right now I don't have anything on it!
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