school starts on monday

i just thought to myself, "stop planning for the first day and relax. you have everything in place. it will go well." i thought this as i was glancing at my policies and procedures document, which is 6 pages long.

i have photocopies made for monday and tuesday. i do need to kind of 'rehearse' the lessons/information in my mind. soemtimes you can know what you want to convey, but it doesn't end up coming out right when you say it, cause you didn't actually plan *how* you were going to convey it.

i am going to take photos of my classroom and post them up here because it looks SOOOOO nice. i am very excited. i have all of these cool things planned for the first week of school, teaching my kids about brain growth/malleable intelligence, teaching them about the essential understandings and essential questions for the course, creating a definition of "expectation" and what it means to have epectations instead of rules, and generating their ideas for how to respect each other, me, the classroom, technology, and the school. fun!!

i just hope it goes well. wish me luck..... i'll keep you posted. :-)