all the more difficult in triple digit temperatures

I thought I'd give you a glimpse of what has been taking up all of my time. Here is my Master To Do List that I compiled at midnight a few days ago, when I couldn't sleep. Who can fall asleep when they have forty-four tasks to remember? Not I.

(Some of the items on this list appear to be written in a non-standard English dialect. It is called Elementary School Teacher and I didn't know most of the words until a few years ago, either.)

* indicates must be done before first day of school

1. Tear / staple / rubberband decodeables
2. Put together Unit 1 reading folders with lined and blank paper
3. Put together science Log Books
4. *Desk name tags
5. *Names on labels for writing journal, math journal, crayons, white folder, reading folder
6. *Buy and sharpen pencils
7. *Letter to parents
8. *Student Bingo – write and xerox
9. *Scavenger hunt around the classroom – write and Xerox
10. *Example self portrait
11. *Welcome Team 18 sign
12. *Behavior color cards chart and clothespins
13. Centers rotation chart
14. *Calendar / morning routine + flow chart
15. *Flow chart for entering class
16. *Chart explaining marble jar, table points, CCC, weekly desk behavior charts
17. *Weekly desk behavior charts
18. ***FIRST DAY SCHEDULE
19. Addition / subtraction bingo cards
20. Daily schedule
21. Finish illustrating job chart
22. Unit 1 vocab – print, cut out, paste, illustrate
23. Done List
24. *Make / Buy actual Calendar
25. *Cubbies nametags
26. Make Look and Learn
27. Data box with student info – make tabs on hanging files
28. *Compile Read Alouds for first week as OCR Getting Started examples
29. Print and burn songs for Friendship unit
30. Xerox and compile sight-word related an easy beginning fluency
31. Print holiday packets (enchanted learning and edhelper subscriptions)
32. *First day homework questionnaire
33. OCR strategies signs
34. parts of speech signs
35. *Buy plants for science center / gardener
36. OCR unit 1 opener
37. *Community Circle guidelines
38. Spelling Word Study strategy
39. Materials to make a kite and example kite
40. Print / cut / laminate sight words
41. OCR skills signs
42. Make sure computers work
43. Storyfolders
44. *Line Order