Finish next week's lesson plans before leaving the building on Friday!

Well, I brought home the teacher’s manuals for the levels I expect to be teaching “next year” (which actually begins on August 25th.) Levels A & B are mostly complete because I taught them this year. Level C I have taught in the past, but my lesson plan collection is sketchy. Level D I have never taught. So, if I’m organized, I could try to get levels C and D mapped out over the summer. Will I? Support welcome!

Didn’t even THINK about writing next week’s plans today because it was a staff development day and I was very busy thinking about all the great things I could do NEXT year!

I’m so excited that I now have NEARLY a full year’s worth of plans for Kdg., Grade 1 and Grade 2. Next year, I will only have to get the plans for Grade 3 and Grade 4 done by Friday because K, 1 and 2 will be there already and will just need to be tweaked. If I combine my 1 3rd grader and my 1 4th grader (this is ESL and we have a small population) then I will only have to write ONE new plan a week, but it will be the kind of plan that won’t really be recyclable to the next year!

Didn’t even START before leaving today. On the bright side, I am nearly free all weekend, so I can hopefully get SOMETHING done before the dreaded Sunday night!

Well, I finished 1 out of 3 before I left the building last night. Today I have a personal day so that I can cook for the Passover seder. WORK WORK WORK! Maybe I’ll get #2 done tonight before dropping in exhaustion. Tomorrow is all seder all the time. Sunday night will probably be when I get #3 done. On the other hand, I won’t have THREE to do on Sunday night! Perspective, it’s all perspective. AND NEXT year, I will have these all in the computer, so I can just tweek them!

Here it is 9:35 on a Sunday night and I’m just getting ready to start planning! Oh my!

Well, at least for this week. Next week we are off on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and we are going out of town. BUT I don’t have spend 1 minute of my vacation worrying about the plans for next Thursday and Friday. Such a good feeling (and on Mr.Roger’s birthday!)

I HATE having my Sunday dominated by finishing up the lesson plans that should have been done on Friday!