Game On

Ok, it's T minus 11 hours until game time. My lunch is made, my outfit is picked out, little people arrangements are made for before school and after, I've read Chapter 12 in the science book, and I've moved past the nerves.

Let me tell you, Chapter 12 is a snooze.  Would it be bad for me to tell the students that?  Does the periodic table excite YOU?

Anyway, I'm ready.  My hubs gave the best pep talk ever.

"Tomorrow you will go to work, you'll be lost all day, you'll come home.  You'll be tired.  Your feet will hurt.  But you'll be fine."

You gotta love him, right?  He tells it like it is, for sure.

But he's right.  I won't have any idea what's going on tomorrow.  But I'm entertaining the idea of giving each class a 1-minute question-and-answer session.  I've used this before with kids.  They can ask me anything (within limits) and I will answer inside a 1-minute time frame.  Then we will move on.

Of course, I've never used that with 8th graders.

May be problematic.

Either way, I'm excited about my new adventure.

They're just kids.  And kids are still kids with the same insecurities and needs, no matter how much money their parents make or what kinds of jeans they wear.

So I'll tackle tomorrow with the same fervor I had 12 years ago when I entered the doors of Floyd Middle School.

And hopefully these kids will love me (and learn from me) as much as those kids did!