First day...was... whoa. I rang the doorbell at 7:45 (nearly an hour before the kids arrive) and came inside to be greeted by Mr. P (the principal), and he just looked at me and said: "The room was hit by a tornado," and then he chuckled, "but all joking aside, there was an incident on Friday, and the room was trashed, we tried to put it back together, but it's not exactly what it was." I took a deep breath and followed him down the hall, and although I knew the way to the room, I let him lead the way. I was honestly expecting the worst... desks overturned furniture in pieces, but when I walked in at first I didn't see anything wrong... until I looked over to Mrs. C's desk and the other horseshoe table. Papers and books EVERYWHERE. Now, I wasn't there Friday, so I can't say exactly what happened, but the jist of what I got from other teachers and the kids was that one of the students, "K" went into meltdown mode and was throwing papers, pens, books, markers, everywhere and at everyone. Ms. M the paraprofessional actually injured her knee (possibly seriously) while trying to control the chaos.
So today was pretty much the day for picking up what was left behind. I spent the first two-ish hours of the day reorganizing the leveled readers into their proper boxes, levels, categories, and themes. The mess in the picture doesn't look as bad as it was-- even the books that look like they were "organized" were just simply put in boxes for the sake of trying to clean up amidst the ruckus. Ms. M spent the morning putting all of the papers and some of the centers back together for Mrs. C (who's lesson plans went missing among the debris).
All of that aside, the kids are absolutely typical first graders. They're chatty, they're excited about and by pretty much every and anything. I like them already, but I can tell it's going to be a challenge.
>>Deep breath in.... I CAN DO THIS!<<
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