One Tired Teacher

So I follow the Teacher Life page on Facebook and they posted this photo this week. Friends, it just spoke to me!

It has been a whirlwind of a month. Let's recap October a little bit...

*Most of my students earned their field trip to the pumpkin patch

*I wasn't able to attend said field trip due to TCI training

*My students were finally conglomerating and getting into their school routines

*I saw some remarkably kind gestures from one student in particular, it just made my teacher heart melt!

*Most of my students earned our school's Haunted House

*Again, I was unable to attend the Haunted House because a kiddo had a meltdown

*Halloween rocked our socks. We had a normal morning, followed by Halloween stations between a couple classrooms, passed out candy to the little kids in our school, and watched Hocus Pocus to end our day

Phew! I tried to hit all the important parts of my #teacherlife during the month of October.

Now that it's mid-November, things have changed a bit. Some of my students are starting to show different behaviors and I'd like to attribute it to all of our schedule changes lately. Between Halloween, Election Day, Veteran's Day, a half day this past week, Thanksgiving next week, and our aide out for two weeks...they're a bit all over the place. One of the things that is keeping me together is my awesome teacher tribe. We vent to each other, we offer advice to one another, help each other when a student is in crisis, we offer each other chocolate :) and we've gone to happy hours together. If it weren't for my awesome teacher tribe I'd be hiding under my covers somewhere.

I am thanking my lucky stars that I get to be the teacher of my kiddos! I posted this to my Facebook page last week. I always say that my students are tough, but they're my kiddos and that makes them the best!

Time for a nap!!