Summer Teaching!

I know a lot of y'all are like "She's teaching summer school? She's crazy!" and to that I say, you're right. No I'm just kidding, I'm not crazy, I just like to work. I shared on my periscope #periscopeteacherchallenge yesterday that I have never gone a summer without teaching. I would love to take a break and spend the summer completely on vacation, but not working scares the living day lights out of me. So I'm taking the time to talk a little bit about how it's going so far...

First of all let me give you a little background. The summer school I'm working at includes second through seventh grade and is being housed in a middle school. Second, third, and fourth graders downstairs and fifth, sixth, and seventh graders upstairs. Middle school is HUGE ya'll! There are too many halls, lockers, and everything is just BIG. I"m 5'3" so I feel regular sized when I 'm walking elementary school hallways. I don't want to say I will never teach in middle school but that chance is SUPER slim.

I walked in my room and I'm like "Where is the carpet? Where am I supposed to sit when I'm teaching or working with a small group?" Yes. I'm totally a sit on the floor kind of teacher. Now I'm not complaining, because I did choose this location for summer school but I say this to let you know that I didn't think about the full weight of my decisions before hand. But before the kids started I made it fun and pretty the way only an elementary teacher can do.

Aside from the big building and the lack of coziness of the classroom, I felt the craziness that is the first week of school and teachers I know you know what I mean. I hope my kids like me, I hope I can remember how the kids will get home, I hope I won't have to go to the bathroom! Eeeekk! But sure enough all of that turned out well as it always has a way of doing. The kids and I get along great, I know exactly when and where to get the kids to at the end of the day, and I now have a co-teacher in the room so when I need to go to the bathroom I can go. Hooray!

I'm teaching second graders at a STEM summer program and it's going well. I tend to like to teach anything but third grade in the summer so that when I get back to school in September I am reminded that my kids are not as mature as the group of third graders that just left me. One week down, five weeks to go! Have you ever taught summer school or are you currently teaching summer school? How is it going if you do?