Dreading going back to work........

Aug 05, 2014

I'm really not ready, mentally or physically, I think.

Here's the situation:

I teach school.  My classroom was "broken down" at the end of the school year last year, meaning I had to take everything off the walls and everything packed up for cleaning over the summer.  I work with 5th and 6th grade age students with autism.  My boys (yep, all boys) are basically non-verbal.  Having issues with functional communication leads to behavior problems and sometimes behavior has to be dealt with by physical restraint for the safety of the student, adults and other students, depending on the severity of the "meltdown".  Being at home all summer, most of my boys will hit the ground running when they come in first day......I might get a "honeymoon" period where they can be precious angels testing the water or I may get bouncing off the walls, hitting, screaming, throwing things, etc until they realize that Ms Cheryl is way more hard headed than they are (under normal circumstances of course but I'm not feeling normal!).  If the past 2 years history repeats itself, I can expect option 2. 

I LOVE MY CAREER!  Just getting that out there because teaching special needs students is a calling and teaching isn't a J O B to me.  My students don't come back to school until August 24th so I still have more time to heal.  I don't want to get all stressed out about it now but I am, stressing, that is.

So for now, I will keep resting and healing.  I have one week and one day until teacher work days start.  I need to find something really fun to do!

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