I think I'm ready - not for school to start, but for getting-ready-for-school to start. I love the promise a new school year brings - the chance to start again, without mistakes. Each pre-school session is a way to extend that looking-forward-to-school time, a chance to make time stand almost still.
I'll attend staff meetings, plan the high school camping trip and the Terry Fox Run, move file folders into their new positions, update my course overviews, arrange for Foods 12 field trips, rearrange desks, put up bulletin boards, and look forward to welcoming my kids back.
I'm looking forward to Biology 11 and 12 this year, to changes I'm hoping to make for Chemistry 11, to Precalculus 11 and 12, to Foods 12 (especially if I can swing field trips to the farmers' market, an orchard, and a goat farm). I'm looking forward to NOT having the grade 10s in Bible. It will be lovely to just have a two grade (11/12) split.
This year will be the first time in a while that the grade 12 class will be bigger than the previous year's class. I think there will be 9. It isn't a huge number, but it is more than before. I firmly believe that the only way OKAA will thrive is to grow from the preschool up, but I'm looking forward to this little bump of growth. It is so much easier to teach, and probably to learn, in a traditional school setting when there are more than 3-5 students in any given class.
So I'm rested, rejuvenated, and ready to start getting ready. 2015-2016 will be a great year!
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