As I reflect, those great first days were usually after a summer where I spent extra time setting up, designing
bordering for student
work displays, dusting each individual book in the classroom
library, fine - tuning and perfecting those beginning lessons: the handouts, the pacing, and the mini-lessons.
Your interesting observations, as well as my love of the
work Border Collies do, will send me off to
library or book shop to pick up a few of your titles.