Getting Back At It

I'm very excited for this week.  The first week of school went great, and I'm pumped to get into the real part of school - the learning!  Or, for me, the teaching!  At the recommendation of a friend, I read The Daily 5, which is about literacy and building literacy skills in students.  I loved it, and am implementing it in my seminar and ELA recovery classes.  It's a lot different from what I've done in the past... which is really NO literacy instruction.  Silly me, I thought that's what they learned in elementary school!  Well, obviously, some of them don't quite get it all, and it never hurts for even the good readers and writers to practice!

This week also begins a 6 week health challenge I've enlisted in.  I've gotten pretty off the track in the last few months, and I need to get back at it!  I think it will help make me accountable for my choices in eating and exercising!