Pre-Fall Stress Dreams

This morning I woke up with a start at 3:11 AM, convinced that I was...late for school. Or had forgotten something crucial.

It was unpleasant, to say the least. I'd been deep in a dream in which I showed up on the first day to find that my room was in shambles, I had a veteran co-teacher who loathed me and didn't want to help me at all, and I didn't know my class roster.

I know where this stress comes from, of course. I was expecting to hear two days ago from my principal about the beginning of school - and no such e-mail. I was also hoping that e-mail would include classroom assignments, and again - not a word.

I've been told not to buy anything for my classroom, and like I mentioned, I'm hesitant to get anything decorative until I know who I'm working with and if they're cool with owls. But I don't even know what our curriculum looks like, and I'm still waiting for a book that we're supposed to get on the behavior management system we use, and I just feel like perhaps I should have a lot more put together than I do - which is to say, I've got nothing. And my last few weeks of August are crazy, combined with supposed district requirements for room set-up...I'm anxious.

So, I have stress dreams. Here's what I'm going to do about them:

1. Email the school about classroom stuff - did that yesterday evening

2. Check out the website for the behavior management system and put together some loose ideas for the first week of school

3. Email one of the teachers I met to ask her opinion on what I should be doing right now.

4. Make a list of things I might want in my classroom - so that I can be ready to ask for them whenever that opportunity arises.

I can do this, right? Is anyone else feeling the anxiety?

xoxo
Miss Zee