October is the New September

We've all been there - it's early September and you're full of optimism, energy and ideas for the new school year. Your classroom looks amazing (Pinterest- worthy even), you have the first few weeks worth of lessons prepped and ready to go and you can't wait to get started on that new multi-disciplinary unit you just know the kids are going to love. The year stretches out before you, bathed in the golden glow of "I am sooo ready for this year".

Then the kids show up. Within weeks, days even, all that time you thought you had is taken up by running club, school-based team meetings and a million small demands that add up to a mountain of work. You still want to do all those cool things but you find yourself looking more closely at which ones you really want to do (that or you stay up all night prepping). That golden glow you felt a few short weeks ago is not quite so golden anymore.

But, just as you begin to worry that this is completely unmanageable, you get a little breathing room. The chaos of the beginning of the year settles down, routines start to become, well, routine and you realize that you will be able to do that cool unit you wanted to do, with a little tweaking. Life is good again.

Ah October, you are the new September. We had every intention of starting this blog in September (I even had romantic notions of doing the first blog post on the first day of school. Silly me.). Then the kids showed up and we got caught up in actually running The Lit Pit instead of just planning it. And we've been loving it. But now it's time to start recording our plans, our progress and our successes (and maybe our failures too, I'm sure there will be a few). So, here's to our first blog post; may there be many more!