Almost a month in

And I could not be more exhausted. I am CONSTANTLY thinking about school, lesson plans, how to reach students, checking papers, responding to emails, attending meetings, helping students, finding pencils on the floor and wishing my students always remembered their name and hour on every paper so I didnt have to take points away.

I'm learning to give explicit directions and learning how the minds of middle school students is VERY different from those in high school. I'm helping them step up their game for high school and they are reminding me not everything has to be so serious.

They keep me on my toes, and 6th graders are the most challenging. They are FUN, exciting, energetic, but very difficult to teach all the time. Sometimes, they just need to move.

"Miss Cartier- ppppplllease let me sit next to Lamar, I'll give you a hug"-Kyle

"Miss Cartier, did you get your hair cut?" "You look different, like pretty different" Jacques

I'm starting also to really consider the comment by Jordan "So you have a mircrowave, stove, washer and dryer, where is the fold out bed?"

And the farther into the year, the more that comment makes sense...