Students can still register through Tuesday I think … so we won’t have our full enrollment until then.
I’m looking forward to it, even though I had my normal — can’t sleep the night before new students.
I’m teaching Algebra I, and the plan is to kill as few trees as possible, though I killed a bunch for the first two days. That means I have to figure out something before Wednesday for Wednesday and Thursday.
I am already planning to have each student keep a folder in my classroom of all their work for the six weeks, so that will be one of the first things I let them do — decorate their folder. I’m going to have them pull them each day, and put them back each, rather than hand work out and back.
I also plan to have them keep a folder on the computer. I’ve already got two days worth of Measuring Up questions in Examview, and plan to have them finish each day by answering those questions. They are multple choice or free response.
As to setting up my room. I think my first priority is going to be to cover and design my bulletin board since I can get to that one. Darn, I should have thought a bit further ahead and gone by Lakeville and gotten something for it. Of course I can do that anytime.
And I’ve got my tape measure in my summer school stuff, so we can measure before we start doing things.
The biggest plan is to set up the room so that switching between desk work and computers is very easy.