School time???

School begins next week and I am anticipating a very busy and very different year. I will be co-teaching in the 3rd grade. I have never had 3rd graders before and I think I will be learning a lot of new signs this year. I am excited that the D/HH program at Key has met several times this summer and have developed some great strategies to better teach our students in regular ed. and in pull out classes. This too will be quiet exciting as we embark on our new adventure...a "vocabulary" adventure so to speak. It's all about teaching as much vocabulary as possible and continue to work on phonics skills as well as everything else. I feel like I have so much to teach with so little time. I am hoping that one of our new strategies will also produces good results in order to get the parents more involved in their children's education. All of this will be a challenged and it may take a while for all of us to implement these changes smoothly...never effortlessly. What a wonderful group of co-workers..I am lucky to work with them to agree to all take time to meet. Off to a new year we go!