After a day like today, Florida couldn't sound any better. Nothing more than kids being kids...and driving me crazy. I dropped the bomb yesterday that I would be leaving for the next three days to go to a conference in Orlando, and while many of my kids seemed disappointed, I'm worried about the kids who I know were silently celebrating in their heads. I can hear their mischievous brains working now...
"You thought one day was chaotic, and now you're leaving us for three?"
It's about to get real.
We're about to find out how extraordinary my class really is. We've been working on becoming a class that other people talk about in a good way, since so much of the talk about Enfield is negative. Some of the kids have put everything they have into being the best, into being different than what other people expect when they walk into our classroom. And some of my students are fine being just plain old "ordinary", as we call them. It doesn't seem to bother them. In fact, I fear that they may even take a little joy in being the weakest link, if for no other reason than the attention that it gets them. I fear for those babies and their lives outside of school.
And while I am excited for the trip, there is still so much to be done. I've taken to recording my voice on every slide of my presentations for each of the three days that I"m gone, so that there will be no confusion about my expectations for each assignment. Which takes forever, by the way. And even still, I need to type up my sub plan to avoid things like, "But Miss H always lets us use the bathroom!" (No she doesn't.) Or, "We go to lunch right away." (No we don't.)
So one more late night of working, one more early morning of setting up my classroom, and then it's off for an afternoon flight to Orlando, and 3 and a half days of Floridian winter (and the conference, of course).
I'll be anxious to see my sub report when I get back. Fingers crossed!
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