New School + Moving + New job = CRAZINESS!!

So after waiting so impatiently and having a few mental breakdowns, I passed my OPI!  I am now a certified Michigan Teacher!  AHHHHH!!!!  Now that I get to keep my job for sure I am going a little crazy and the nerves are starting to kick in.  I hardly slept last night and I am pretty sure it is because I did nothing to prepare for school.... In good news though my husband also found a job and has already started!  We are going to be way more financially stable this year than we have been in a long time!  Of course to get to the stability part we going to have to go completely broke... but oh well we will survive...I hope.  I am not excited at the fact that we are moving in with my parents for a few months to help us get stabilized... not because I don't love my parents and really appreciate them letting us crash with them for a little, but because I will have an hour commute to work everyday! YUCK!!  At least I get to drive our new car to work!

I had CLEAR training last week and am super stoked to be able to use it for oral tests/assignments.  My goal is to hopefully get a tablet by the end of the year to create more advanced lessons so that I can start looking at what"flipping" is all about.  Of course I'm thinking flipping my classroom might be a little too much my first year, but I figure as a part-timer I might actually have time to make videos, thus giving me a head-start the next year on flipping!

Research on Pinterest has been my thing lately and I have recently found a lot of information on Interactive Notebooks.  I would like to incorporate them into my classroom but I am not sure how to use them at this moment.  I think I am going to take notes on ideas for it throughout the school year and then have one figured out.  My first year students will hopefully be great guinea pigs and I can't wait to try some ideas and get creative!  With my first year and this blog I have one goal; share my best/worst parts of my week every week as a type of reflection on my teaching.

So come along with me on this crazy ride!  I will be learning about TPRS, teaching middle schoolers, and so much more!  Any comments, suggestions, or words of encouragement are welcomed!

- A CERTIFIED MICHIGAN TEACHER!!!! :)