Ms. Zentz's Teaching Blog

I felt so confident at 6th grade Orientation last Wednesday. I was no longer a first-year teacher just trying to tread water and stay afloat. I knew answers to parents' questions. I knew what to tell the kids about what they would be learning in math this year. I knew insider info about the shortcut across the basketball court to the cafeteria. I felt AMAZING. But then reality set in... today was the second day of school, and the second day of having to run my class out of a computer lab instead of my classroom. My air conditioner died the day before school started, and it was just fixed this afternoon. So I am reeeeally looking forward to being on familiar turf tomorrow! But the thing is, I tried to plan everything out so meticulously for the first few days of school and because of my AC, I had to throw them all out the window. I tried to fix all my mistakes from last year at once, and now I feel like I can't. But hey, tomorrow will start a clean slate on top of the clean sl