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Friday, August 24, 2012

First Week of School

Wow!  It has been a crazy 1st week of school. We started our kindergarten classes on Tuesday. As expected, I got my 20th student on the 1st day and so did several other teachers.  We enrolled 12 students between Monday and noon on Tuesday.  This gave all but 3 of our 14 teachers 20 students. At 2:00 the District Superintendent and Principal were discussing whether to hire a new teacher or wait until after Labor Day when they were informed another kindergartener had enrolled.  After school we were called to a meeting and informed that another teacher was hired and would start the next day. The empty K class was being used by the resource teachers, so everyone went into action. Within a few hours, we moved the resource teacher to another room and help the new teacher completely set up class to receive 18 students the next day. Some of us lost the last student enrolled and a couple of teachers lost 2 students. This left 8 of us with 19 students and 7 with 18. We have had several more enroll so as of today 11 teachers are back up to 19. The ironic part of this is that in May we were told because of the low numbers the last 2 years, the District was lowering the Kindergarten staff down to 12 and 2 teachers would be moved to another grade or school.  At the end of the school year, we had one teacher move to 2nd grade and the rest of us not knowing if we would be moved. The middle of July enrollment for Kindergarten was 50 students above the year before, so a teacher was hired at the end of July and now they have had to hire another giving up 15 teachers. The way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up with 20 students again. It has defiantly been a long, exhausting, and exciting week. I have 19 wonderful students and can’t wait to get to know them.

 uRose

4 comments:

kinderkareteach

I found your blog today and was so excited because I am doing a jungle theme in my room this year. I love all the free things you have put on here and would love to download some but can not get any to work, there is no link to download or print and you can not click on the images. I wanted to let you know... I would love to use some of these wonderful things... Thanks, your newest follower! Brenda

kinderkareteach

It looks like some of them work like the behavior clip chart but not the older stuff, maybe? I wanted the birthday chart page and some other stuff.. Thanks again, Brenda

kinderkareteach

Oh, and I loved the sight words but couldn't get that link to work either...Thanks

Rose

Brenda,
I went back and updated some of the links so they should download now. You have your setting as no reply so I could not reply to your link.
Rose

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