A little bit of venting...

I feel as though my world at school has been turned upside down! We had an emergency faculty meeting last week (first, I want to say that emergency faculty meeting is NEVER a good thing....last year I found out big changes were being made which was causing my department chair to leave :( )

I was in NO hurry to find out what news would come from this meeting. Just as I suspected...we had a Math teacher and an ELA teacher pulled from our campus to be reassigned elsewhere! I was like what the heck?!?! We test in all three grade levels with both of those contents....

I felt bad for those two new, first year teachers...they worked so hard setting up their classrooms and putting in so much effort to bond with their students...all for nothing. Last week we had to say good bye to our 6th grade math teacher...

This being my first year as department chair with so many first year teachers in my department was stressful enough...throw in this and I felt as though my world was collapsing. I am a firm believer that God will only give you what you can handle (and right now I feel he believes I can handle ALOT!). I am thankful for all the support I have and the encouraging words I hear from my husband, family and friends; I don't know where I would be without that. 

Our Math department has a lot of obstacles to overcome this year...but I know that with dedication we will perservere through all of this.

With all that being said...My 8th grade math class song is this:

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)

Already brushing off the dust

You hear my voice, you hear that sound

Like thunder gonna shake the ground

You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)

Get ready cause I’ve had enough

I see it all, I see it now

I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire

Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar

Louder, louder than a lion

Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

You’re gonna hear me roar

-Katy Perry

This song came out at just the time I needed it :) 

First week!

What a week! I forgot how crazy it can be :) 

My kiddos have enjoyed their first week back at school and they absolutely love their teachers.! They got back into the wake up early in the morning routine down and that makes for one happy mommy!

My first week was great too! It seems that this years group of kids are going to be great :) We have been hitting it hard with math already and they can already tell you when our STAAR Math test is. 

With all of the new rules, new teachers, new principal, and my new position on campus things have been going kind of hectic for me this week. 

Monday: First day of school. I wanted to be apart of my kiddos first day of school; I was able to walk them in and sit with them for about 10 minutes and then my parents had to take over because me and my husband both had to work. 

Tuesday: My husband was coming off of shift so my dad had to come to my house super early to watch the kiddos and get them off to school because I had a meeting bright and early for our campus leadership team.

Wednesday: Fairly easy morning and the day was a blur

Thursday: My first Math Department Meeting as Dept. Chair

Friday: Thank God it's Friday!

Needless to say with it being the first week of school and meetings this week I had NO time to plan! So I spent my Sunday doing just that!

But first...before I did that...I had to finish a summer project that I started (the first week after school let out). My husband and I ripped up all our carpet so we could put laminate flooring down. I had this brilliant idea that we should pain the living room because it desperately needed it...so I started putting putty in all the holes. Once we finished the flooring I had no energy to paint!

So this is what the room looked like:

You can see the white spots and you can see where I started to test paint colors on the wall...

Now I did put the room back together but this was the only picture I had with the wall issues.

I am happy to report that as of today it looks like this

still a work in progress but the walls are SOOOOO much BETTER!

Until Next time,

The Math Diva :)