Summer Begins

Summer school ended this past Thursday so I can finally begin my summer vacation. I will have three weeks of summer before we have to go back for pre service. Summer school was a breeze and I really enjoyed just teaching math. The kids made some great gains and I feel like most of them really are ready for 5th grade math :)

I'm going to fully enjoy my three weeks that I have left of my summer. We're going to Sou.th Carol.ina from the 10th-16th to visit my brother. My mom is taking Little man and myself so that should be a fun time! I'm really hoping to relax and get rejuvenated for the school year. I'm really starting to freak out about all the work that I have to do so I'm really trying to get some planning and stuff out of the way right now.

Last week the two other fourth grade teachers and myself got together to meet and just discuss stuff. We are all new and are all pretty unsure of the upcoming year. I'm not sure if I've disclosed details or not but we have a teacher that is coming from Kindergarten and one that's coming down from 6th grade math intervention and then myself. In addition the intervention teacher that's taking my job has yet to be hired. I am really pretty ticked about that because I really wanted to meet the person and hand them the reading intervention program that we are going to be co teaching together so that later on this summer we could actually get together for a planning session. It's not going to do any good to try to plan before the person has had time to delve into the program and just look it over. I'm not planning on going back to school until I absolutely HAVE too because I've been there for the past month.

So far it's been a really great summer but I'm looking forward to having some time off where I don't have to go to work!