Is the laminating machine on? Is there a roll ready for laminating new posters?
Do I have any new students? Do you have their records?
Do I have enough desks? The class is bigger this year?
It's detail time with the new school year right around the corner. Summer's big think is done, and now it's time to print and laminate all the mini-posters I created to capture the essence of that big think so that I can translate it into daily teaching and learning.
It's time to finish all the little, tiresome jobs that have sat idle on my to-do list all summer. Most of them require some kind of detailed paperwork and phone calls to receive refunds or reimbursements, and now that the summer fund is dry, there's a bit more motivation to collect those dollars spent at conferences, purchasing school materials, and doing summer work.
Most of the research is done, but there's a few minor points to organize and a short book or two left unread for now, books that will make good reading once the school year is set.
There's also a few end-of-summer gatherings to attend, and then that day will here--a day of homecoming and always a number of surprises too. I hope the weather cools off a bit as that will make the final days of prep a bit more successful too.
