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Top Ten Reasons You Know it is BACK TO SCHOOL time!


Top Ten Reasons I Know I am 

Heading Back to School:
10.  The days are increasingly shorter and the to do lists are increasingly LONGER.
9. Instead of planning my entire day around going to a dollar store or the target dollar spot, I am now planning my days around getting into the school building.
8.  Every time I go to school I have to get a flat bed cart to bring my load into my classroom. 
7.  I am currently inventing and patenting a diet coke patch that I can wear all day. 
6.  Monday through Friday, I don’t allow myself to use the restroom from 7-3.
5. I have been to the doc to stock up on bladder infection meds. which will get me through to October at least.  (refer to number 6)
4.  I have spent over 250 dollars on school supplies and that does NOT include my own children’s supplies for their new classes.  

3. When I eat lunch I set the timer for 5 minutes.  Any food left after that must be thrown away.  (back to doc for heartburn and antacid meds)
2. I recorded my name in a whiny voice and have it playing repeatedly on my ipod as I set up my classroom just to desensitize my ears to the sound.  If I could simultaneously be tapped on, tugged on, and followed around the room I would add that to my teacher training.
and the number 1 reason I know I am heading back to school….

Every waking moment I think about something else I want and need to do for my classroom and my incoming students!

At the end of last school year I made this video about A day in the life of  a TEACHER…I am sharing it again to remind us all of the joys of our profession! *disclaimer* I am not a singer! But I will do anything for my students and that includes humiliating myself for their entertainment….and yours.

 
Feel free to share with your team or your teacher friends.  (If you can handle my singing!!!)
But seriously, I want to say to my blogging teacher friends,  that being able to see, hear, and read everything that has been posted online that you are doing for your students has inspired and challenged me to be a better teacher.  Thank you for being so willing to share!  Teachers are the BEST! 

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    29. LP says

      Love, love, love the video! Shared with all my teacher friends. Your top ten list is awesome, too. HAve a great scholastic year!

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