It's a new dawn... It's a new day...

I met my new kids! On Thursday I took the morning off from Tollgate to head over to Steele to meet my new mentor and new kids. Despite my nerves I really enjoyed the day...especially the 8 minute commute! It was definitely different than my 20-25 minute commute out to Aurora. I vaguely remember Steele from when I interviewed with Stanley but this time around I tried to totally commit everything to memory for when I arrive in January. I'm looking forward to next semester for a few reasons, the first being the fact that my classroom has 3 whole windows... WINDOWS... how awesomely novel! We are a north facing classroom so while we won't get direct sunlight for a while, it will still be wonderfully nice to have natural light. In fact, I'm pretty sure we didn't even have the lights on, we just let the natural light illuminate our classroom. The next reason I'm really excited is that I will be in a mixed aged classroom so 3rd, 4th AND 5th graders! I'm looking forward to this so that I will really be able to implement a lot of what we learn at seminar. I definitely felt overwhelmed at moments but I'm sure I will integrate nicely into my new community.