Keeping Up With It All

Teaching a room full of first graders alone is a full time job! Don't let anyone ever tell you differently! There are too many days I have no idea how I am going to drag myself home to make supper for my family - and it's just my husband and I, now that the kids are out of the house (one in the "real work world" and one in college). To try to think about creating new games and activitites to sell on Teachers Pay Teachers has been put on hold for now, for me.  Trying to get a blog post done once a week can be challenging!  It has been a chaotic week in my world.  

Technology has not been my best friend, for the most part.  I DID, however, get the new laptop for our classroom through DonorsChoose!!! It's amazing how quickly it came! After the tech department at our school got our security system installed, we are ready to start using it.  We have a few bugs to work out yet, though. The VGA cords are on the other side of the classroom, and I am not able to use the tablet portion of the new laptop without the base AND still have the image reflected to the Smart Board.  It would be great if it could just magically happen without any wires the way I had envisioned.  Sigh....

We have been very busy connecting with others outside our classroom, however! We had a great visit with another first grade classroom from California on Google Hangout, and we have another one set up for this coming Friday for a Mystery Skype.  I connected with the Media Specialist from their school on Google+.  There are a lot of great people networking on Google+!!  If you want to know more about that, please contact me and I'll get you connected.

I hope you have a great week!!