New Years Resolutions

As 2015 came to a close and 2016 began I have been thinking a lot about New Years Resolutions and what I want to accomplish this year. I've started a list in my notes on my phone of things I'd like to incorporate into my classroom starting when we get back from break. 

But aside from those things there are a few things I'm determined to focus on in my classroom for 2016. 

1) Consistancy: I seem to come up with these new ideas or find inspiration online just to try them for a week or two and then forget about them. I'm going to work to maintain these ideas for a longer period of time before I decide to do away with them. 

2) Organization: I'm usually an organized

person but there's a few pieces to my room I'd like to find a way to organize and keep that way. First is my Wonders reading series. We just started this series in September and although it's working well there are SO MANY PIECES. I have yet to find a way to organize them all so I can find things easily and put them back quickly. I've seen some great ideas online so I'm excited to tackle this. Also, keeping my desk from becoming a dumping ground for everything is a goal of mine. 

3) Finally, social emotional support for all my students needs to happen. I was under the assumption that because most of them went to pre-k that it was something I didn't need to focus as much on. Wrong. We have a huge issue in my room of solving problems by ourselves. It just doesn't happen. That's going to be a huge focus of mine in 2016. 

Maybe by writing down all these resolutions I'll actually accomplish some of them. Here's to hoping! For now though I'm going to continue enjoying my vacation until I'm back to school on Wednesday.