Four down, 170 days to go.

Well, I survived my first week as a teacher.

And it was exhausting.  There's still some (okay, a lot) of things that still are "in progress," but for the most part this has been good.  I'm still trying to establish myself and figure out how best to teach these kids.  They're dragging their scholastic feet a little, especially regarding reading.  Of the 21 students I work with, five or six seem to really enjoy reading.  And it seems my best reader is one of the 5th graders.  I assign two chapters and she reads seven.  On Tuesday I gave my kids (the 7th and 8th graders) a simple assessment to see what they remember.  I've done this before.  On the quiz was a map of the US, which I had them label as best they could.  Well, like last time it didn't work too well.  Only one did better than 90%.  Yesterday I gave them another states quiz, but this time three got 100% and five got over 90%.  Maybe there's hope for them yet.  Despite realizing there is more to do than I expected, I think I can handle it.