Comments on: 5 Mistakes I Made My First Year! https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html Fun Teaching Resources for your Classroom Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Courtney Harris https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html#comment-2472 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:53:45 +0000 https://mollylynch.com/?p=2837#comment-2472 Here I am in bed, deleting emails. I read your newsletter quickly and got ready to call it a night. Fortunately, this article’s blurb caught my eye. I knew I had to read it! I am a first year, third grade teacher. I’m three weeks in and loving it! However, if I’m honest, I’m also unsure of how long I can keep up the pace I’m going at. I leave my house at 6:15 am and get home by 5:00 at the earliest. I then spend every moment (other than a hurried dinner as I go) until I go to bed at 9:00 making sure everything’s ready for the next day. I know that teaching requires a large time commitment, but I also want to have time for a life! Thanks so much for the reminder to stick to boundaries and enjoy time doing other things I love (and need!) 🙂

]]> By: Molly https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html#comment-2432 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 02:57:04 +0000 https://mollylynch.com/?p=2837#comment-2432 In reply to Jessica.

Awww Jessica, you are so sweet! Thank you for your kind words & following along! I’ve made lots more mistakes and I will share those soon 🙂

]]> By: Jessica https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html#comment-2426 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:44:33 +0000 https://mollylynch.com/?p=2837#comment-2426 Thank you so much for these tips to a future teacher (2 years of school left…)! I follow you on Instagram and TPT and you are an incredible inspiration. Thanks!

]]> By: Molly https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html#comment-2286 Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:03:23 +0000 https://mollylynch.com/?p=2837#comment-2286 In reply to Amanda.

Great idea to use Donors Choose! Test prep – eeeek! When they are so little, too 🙁 I wonder what I’ll look back on in another 10 years and think I’m currently doing that was oh so terrible!

]]> By: Amanda https://mollylynch.com/2015/08/5-mistakes-i-made-my-first-year.html#comment-2272 Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:04:03 +0000 https://mollylynch.com/?p=2837#comment-2272 I think I made all those mistakes too! Unfortunately the spending money one became a habit that has been hard to break. I’ve learned to ask for donations more and Donors Choose has helped too. Another mistake I made was underestimating the amount of time on test prep. This was more a district directive than a personal choice, but I thought I’d be able to use all those great ideas I learned in college, but instead I was doing a whole lot of test prep (I thought third grade which is the first testing grade here in in OH).

Have a great weekend!

Amanda

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