I think the week before teachers return to school should be called "Take Your Children to Work Week". You'd think that the 5 days before kids show up would be enough time to set-up a classroom, but that thinking is beyond wrong. Way beyond wrong. Pre-planning week is usually filled with meetings, professional development, registration, chatting, and lunches out because we never get to do that. Therefore teachers usually go to school ahead of time to have everything ready to go. And they usually bring their kids. It's "Take Your Children to Work Week". Someone should really make that official.
Our TYCWW started on Monday. In the 3 hours we were in "Mommy's Boom" I was able to place all the furniture around the room. We are always told, nah, nagged, to not drag the furniture on the freshly polished floors. We are told to wait for a custodian to come by with a dolly. In my 8, now 9, years of teaching, I've never seen a custodian with a dolly or seen a teacher wait. Teachers drag the furniture. I did it and I'll do it again next year. Those floors are going to get messed up anyway. Deal with it.
Tuesday was mainly unpacking. My room has wooden lockers and I stuffed each and every locker with teacher junk at the end of school last year. Again, we stayed at school for about 3 hours.
You both were exceptionally good. I made sure to have plenty of snacks and I let you play with my classroom things. It's amazing how pencil cups and chairs and things like that can entertain two small children. The only problem happened on Tuesday. I was talking with another teacher when I heard Layla cry out, "Pip-pops wet"! Layla had an accident.
I let you skip school on Wednesday to go play with your friends at the splash park. I can't believe I let you cut class on TYCWW! I should feel ashamed. :)
On Thursday you got the day off again to stay with Omi and Poppi! Skipping twice in one week?! Shameful. . . . but I went to school and got so much done. My companion that day was my hot glue gun. That's another thing we are nagged about - don't use hot glue on the walls. I don't care. I do it anyway. It's really the only thing that let's you stick stuff to concrete walls without it peeling off before Labor Day.
We went back to school on Friday. We didn't stay long since I had only had a few things to do. But I did remember to take my camera. I had to capture TYCWW! I love how excited Nono was to sit in the chairs and how LB played peek-a-boo in the lockers.
Love,
Mommy
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