Halloween parade through town

Friday was such a wonderful day!  Not only was it an early dismissal day, but it was our school's Halloween parade!

My school literally parade's through the side roads of town while people in the community sit and cheer them on and pass out candy.  It was sooooo much fun!  My kids loved it!

And you know what else?  It made the day go by so much faster!  In a world where Kindergarten is becoming what used to be 1st grade, and slowly phasing out play, nap time, snack time, etc., I was able to just sit with my kids and enjoy spending time with them!  They needed it too!

I can only share this one picture because it doesn't show the students' faces.  Kindergarten was the last to go, and you can see the long line of students in front of us walking down the street. 

I hope you have a wonderful, spooky Halloween!

My Classroom

I'll have pics of this to come too!  I've just finished unpacking it and will start taking my students to it on Monday!  But, "Alicia", you say, "hasn't school been going on for about 1 1/2 months now?!"  My answer: yes, but my portable wasn't ready because it couldn't pass inspections and get an occupancy permit.

So, I literally taught my class in a hallway.  I'm not kidding!  Imagine being a first year teacher teaching in the hallway!  I've had amazing support though from my husband, administrators, mentor, and coworkers.  Thanks everyone for your help!

Papers and a Laptop

Today was my first day as a Kindergarten ELL teacher!  I didn't actually teach anything, or have contact with any students, or even go to the school at which I'll be teaching.  Strange right?!

Ok, so I'll amend the above statement of: 

      Today was my first day as a Kindergarten ELL teacher!

and I'll change it to:
      Today was my first day working for Caroline County Public Schools!  Yay!

While today was my first official day, I had to attend Human Resource meetings.  You think that my little Hispanic students can't understand what I'm saying?  Try to attend a meeting where you've got a public accountant describing 401K's, 403B's, flex spending or regular plain Jane health insurance, and any other acronymn that stands for something that will immediately put you to sleep or drive you to look for split ends!

We also got a pile of papers to fill out, read, or burn!  Just kidding about the burn part....I think.  Anyways, this pile was amazing.  The whole time I'm thinking, "I hope I'm strong enough to carry that load without dropping it and being fined for littering."  I was also thinking we could have saved a local forest because EVERY new teacher got the same pile!

But wait?!  There's a perk for sitting through that whole day?  Yup!  Drum roll please........I got a beautiful, brand-spanking-new, Apple laptop!  Wow!  I of course had to sign away my life in order to take it home, but it's mine!   

I hope you get nice perks from your job too!  Anyone want to share any?