Good-bye Summer, Hello School Year!

Our puppy, Lucy, at 8 weeks old!

It's hard to believe that there's only a week left of summer vacation! My husband (who also teaches) and I definitely had a busy summer filled with house projects, school projects and our favorite project - our new puppy! We brought home our 8-week old yellow Labrador Retriever puppy Lucy the day after school got out and it has been non-stop ever since.

With only ten days left of summer vacation, it is finally time to accept reality and more importantly, to get back onto a schedule. The worst part about starting a new school year is getting used to waking up at the crack of dawn and staying up late to get everything done. So starting on Monday, I'll be doing half-days back in my classroom to start getting myself used to going back to work and to have Lucy get accustomed to us not being home with her 24-7. BIG SIGH!

Because tomorrow will put us into single-digits, it's starting to hit me that my  classroom to-do list needs to get tackled - ASAP! I've been plugging along most of the summer on projects that I just can't find the time to do during the school year, such as setting up centers for morning work, thinking about and planning for my new math notebooks that I hope to launch this year and pondering how to incorporate explicit goal-setting into my classroom.

That being said, I'm going to get cracking on wrapping up some last minute projects. Tomorrow I will be sharing one of my first Pinterest projects (addicted!) so be sure to check back!