Ms. Ward...Ms. Ward...

OMG, I've never been called my last name and it's starting to hurt me. People say Ms. Ward and I'm oblivious. After 2 seconds I'm like, "oh crap, that's me."

Anyway, a LOT has been happening this week, but nothing exciting that was worth writing about. I spent last Wednesday and Thursday in school district trainings...zzzzzzzzz, kind of a snore not going to lie. Then Friday morning was an all staff school district meeting. Another snore....but the most interesting part about that was we had a prayer before starting. Who says you can't have prayer in education, not folks in the Delta.

Each day this week was spent in more trainings, school specific. Aka, our principal, Ms. Winters' made us go. I would have much rather had the time to work in my classroom, but that is mundane compared to learning about a smart board (that we will never have in our school) and talking about rules and consequences like it's the most important thing on the face of the planet.

Yesterday (Wednesday) was parents orientation. Parents could come in and register their child for school and they could meet their teacher, fill out paperwork, etc. I met about 15-18 of my parents and families. Some brought their kids, some didn't. It was sooooo exciting :) However, all but like 2 of my parents said this about their child, "oooooo, they bad. Yeah, they real bad." Good start, good start, Ms. Ward....

Oh well, I left school feeling fairly prepared (minus the fact I hadn't done my first day agenda yet, but I had all night to get that done). So, while I'm looking through a couple of books that I thought we might read as a class, I get a phone call from Ballard. Mind you this is the person I am supposed to be looking up to because she knows the Kindergarten ropes and is going to help me get through this year. She went driving through a soybean field and got her Tahoe stuck, THEN expected me to come help her get out! When I got out there, I realized that she drove under the big water sprayer thing that stretches across the field. Down here, SUV's and Tahoe's don't need 4-wheel drive (um, what, excuse me?) so she is stuck AND walking through the mud without shoes on and in a white skirt. I laughed for a longgggg time, in fact, when I think about it now I still laugh!! Luckily, before we had to do much, the farmer was checking the field and found us out there and he pulled her out....not before we took about 30 pictures to document this brilliant choice she made!

Okay, first day of school is todayyyyyyy....I feel like I'm typing at the speed of light right now because I am so anxious and excited. I have a 5 page agenda that will hopefully take up the entire day!! If not, I'll be writing another venting blog tonight! I got my class roster yesterday and am positive that I will struggle with some of the names, these poor kids and having to write such long names with vowels and silent letters all OVER the place! I'll post some of my names tonight. Lois and I have to take our picture, since it's the first day of school at all ;)

Pray for me...I might need it today. My principal asked me yesterday if I have been practicing my "teacher tone" aka mean voice. They specifically tell you not to smile until Christmas...I am supposed to have 23 5-year olds and not smile at them when they come in the room? I'm probably going to smile just thinking about how "they bad!"

Over and out from the Cypress house....first day of school.....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK :) :) :) :) :) :) :)