Well, I made it through yet another week. This particular one seemed a bit more harried than others even though it was only four days long. Perhaps it was because it was only four days long and contained more than its share of oddball activities. Here's a rundown:
Tuesday: Fairly normal day, actually - only one special (right in the morning).
Wednesday: No specials, but we had our very first writing benchmark. I might add that I was given three days notice about said benchmark, thank you very much. To add to the stress of knowing that my students weren't very well prepared, I had to break up the test to preserve my reading block. Never mind that the fifth grade was allowed to move their reading block - for some reason that I'm unaware of, we did not. Not only that, not only that, but we also had a lockdown drill scheduled for that day. I knew it would be coming, I just didn't know when. I spent the day perpetually tense, ready to shepherd my students into the area of the room they are to go to during a lockdown. My back was killing me by the end of the day - I assume it was from the tension.
And no, Wednesday is NOT over. After school on that day I had to stay for DIBELS training, which I discussed in an earlier entry. I'll have another day next Wednesday, but thankfully it's an early release day, so I won't be SO late getting home.
Thursday: My mom came in for Science - which was a good thing, not it's opposite. The kids were crazy chatty, though, and driving me nutty. They are never outright badly behaved, they're just very ...social. Not a terrible problem to have by any means, just annoying.
Friday: Picture day. Yikes. I don't even want to see mine, but I know I'll not have a choice. After school I went to the district office to get my insurance card. When I came in they said that the person I was supposed to get it from was already gone as it was "quite late." Well, uh, sorry, but I left as soon as I was able - only 15 minutes after I'm even contractually allowed to leave. Not much I can do about that.
So, all in all, a crazy week. I'm going to try to implement reading centers next week. Wish me luck.
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