Week seven: settling in... Again

Last week was the big news that we were going to have two full time people joining us which meant that we [Erica and I] would be placed full time at one of the two elementary buildings and mentor the other in coming class members. The following Monday we had an inservice - the teachers were writing Student Learning Objectives - which I wish I could explain but after an hour and a half of information and a powerpoint I'm not sure I fully understand it all. The teachers then broke up after the SLO explanations and began writing them and I began breaking down my half of the classroom. [Of which I think there are pictures of in last week's installment] If there aren't, imagine it looking even more bare.

I also talked with teachers from my permanent home and discovered they had come up with a schedule! YAY! Scheduling is so not one of my gifts and talents! At lunch I loaded up my car and drove to my school with all the things from the first place [plus a few boxes of books] and poof.

I've been tutoring a first grader and I kept telling her I'd get my books into the room, so she made me a Halloween book because it took me so long to get my own books in.

Then we had first aid training on Thursday. I named my dummy Fred. Or maybe it was George...
And that pencil isn't actually stuck in my arm, but it is amazing the number of friends I have that commented that it looked like something I would actually do.

And finally, we had out swearing in ceremony on Friday at McKeever Environmental Center in Sandy Lake. I know it's hard to read, but it says:

I will get things done for America

To make our people safer,

smarter and healthier.

I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.

Faced with apathy, I will take action.

Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.

Faced with adversity, I will persevere. 

I will carry this commitment with me this year an beyond.

I am an AmeriCorps member and I will get things done. 

 

And because I found out the new guy likes coffee and the teachers have been running around mugging each other [get it, 'mug'ing eacg other? yeah, I thought it was funny myself], I got got him a mug and some note papers that says make today awesome.