healing
as you can imagine from my last post, i was not thrilled to do any work this weekend or prepare for school tommorow. on friday before i left, i graded and entered all of the quizzes my kids took that day. i printed progress reports, cleaned up, and left.
this weekend, i did barely any work at all. yesterday i socialized, cleaned, exercised, and napped. we went to a seder in the evening. today jesse and i slept in and hung out together in the morning, then spent the afternoon at a barbecue. i actually napped today from 5-6:30. i woke up convinced i would never want to prep for school again--and then i sat down at my computer and prepped. i have been working for about 3 hours and i'm almost ready for tommorow. well, as ready as i'm going to be. but somehow, just like always, i am able to move on past friday and face my classroom again tommorow morning. i can't say that it's going to be a particularly well-planned day, but it will happen. i will be there, we will work, maybe they will learn a little, and it will all be okay.
the california standards test (CSTs for short) begins in one week. for 8th graders, it's two solid weeks of testing every morning. i have my kids for 3 hours in the morning and we eat snacks, then take the test, then do other stuff. last year was hell, because i had kids who really didn't take much time on their tests, and i didn't plan enough for them to do when they were finished. i think this year will be much better, because my kids are very different (and will work much more diligently) and also i will be much better prepared.
i think when i woke up this morning i couldn't see the end of the school year, and now, for some reason, i actually can. it's pretty exciting, actually! my afternoon kids are really driving me up the wall and i am struggling with how to just stay patient with them for the rest of the year. i have definitely decreased my workload with that class, though, which is great. i'm leaning really heavily on a new (better) textbook that we got in january. it's hard for them but i am doing some support and scaffolding, and they're doing okay. they do seem to be more interested in the stories, so that's good. and it is really helpful to have something good to use. i taught a lot of this textbook to my 7th graders last year, so i am also quite familiar with it.
anyways, i will be fine. i have one more week of regular teaching, three weeks of testing, two weeks that are only four days long each, and then two more weeks of school. so eight more weeks, only one of which (this week) is an actual normal week with normal things happening and no testing. i guess it will all be okay.
this weekend, i did barely any work at all. yesterday i socialized, cleaned, exercised, and napped. we went to a seder in the evening. today jesse and i slept in and hung out together in the morning, then spent the afternoon at a barbecue. i actually napped today from 5-6:30. i woke up convinced i would never want to prep for school again--and then i sat down at my computer and prepped. i have been working for about 3 hours and i'm almost ready for tommorow. well, as ready as i'm going to be. but somehow, just like always, i am able to move on past friday and face my classroom again tommorow morning. i can't say that it's going to be a particularly well-planned day, but it will happen. i will be there, we will work, maybe they will learn a little, and it will all be okay.
the california standards test (CSTs for short) begins in one week. for 8th graders, it's two solid weeks of testing every morning. i have my kids for 3 hours in the morning and we eat snacks, then take the test, then do other stuff. last year was hell, because i had kids who really didn't take much time on their tests, and i didn't plan enough for them to do when they were finished. i think this year will be much better, because my kids are very different (and will work much more diligently) and also i will be much better prepared.
i think when i woke up this morning i couldn't see the end of the school year, and now, for some reason, i actually can. it's pretty exciting, actually! my afternoon kids are really driving me up the wall and i am struggling with how to just stay patient with them for the rest of the year. i have definitely decreased my workload with that class, though, which is great. i'm leaning really heavily on a new (better) textbook that we got in january. it's hard for them but i am doing some support and scaffolding, and they're doing okay. they do seem to be more interested in the stories, so that's good. and it is really helpful to have something good to use. i taught a lot of this textbook to my 7th graders last year, so i am also quite familiar with it.
anyways, i will be fine. i have one more week of regular teaching, three weeks of testing, two weeks that are only four days long each, and then two more weeks of school. so eight more weeks, only one of which (this week) is an actual normal week with normal things happening and no testing. i guess it will all be okay.
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