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[quote=Anonymous]I realize this is old, but yes I am overwhelmed too. To anyone who thinks teaching is easy--come shadow me for a week, but you have to come to work with me all day, then you can leave until 8:30 or 9:00 and come back for another 2-3 hours. And this is first grade! After I finish typing this, I have to make a SMARTBoard lesson for the reading lesson for tomorrow (yes, I am VERY behind). And I have to because we are expected to have SB lessons for every lesson and I am responsible for creating the reading ones for my grade level so 7 others are counting on it. Write my reading groups lesson plans (5 pages) to be turned in by 4:00 tomorrow. 5 pages not by choice, by format required. We dismiss at 2:10. I will stay til 4 tomorrow (on a FRIDAY, when every other profession blows off early) to make sure I have all materials assembled for next week. This is how it goes after kiddos go to bed: 
Sundays: pull SB lessons out of dropbox, link to agenda, e-mail newsletter to parents, update classroom webpage

Mondays: grade papers (first grade, so not too much here). If I maybe had a classroom guidance lesson that week and got ahead, maybe try to write some positive notes home or get ahead on SB lessons

Tuesdays: finish grading if needed and stuff Wed. take home folders

Wednesdays: write reading lesson plans for next week (I am responsible for reading lessons for my 8 person grade level team), compile the rest of the teams' plans to look pretty in Word to turn in

Thursdays: create reading SB lessons for next week, reading group lesson plans

Fridays and Saturdays, yes Fri and Sat nights: finish SB lessons

My house is a wreck and my husband says he only has a wife during the summer!

I do not get a lunch break. I have to eat with and supervise my students. I do get 40 min. planning most days but if I don't have a meeting or parent conference, I set up my math centers which is after planning.

On Mondays, my grade level meets until 4. On most Wednesdays I have faculty meetings or mandatory committee meetings until 4 or if it is an Early Release Day for the students I have to stay until 3:30. One a month ERDs are supposed to be for teacher planning and the other for Staff Dev. We are usually required to meet with our mandatory committees for an hour on the planning days, plus other busy work tasks, so there goes that time!

We are all drowning and the older teachers on my team tell me that they don't know how I do it with small children at home because it wasn't this demanding when their adult children were little.

OK--off to do work![/quote]

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