Just Another 17 Hour Day

Hi. Sorry I am late.

It is Thursday and I am sitting in the media center during 7th period, which is my planning period for the day. I did not blog yesterday, as I was busy. All Day.

Yesterday, I got up, got ready and went to school at 6:45 a.m. We had classes all day, as usual. I was not teaching any of the classes yesterday, as it is an even day, but I am trying to get caught up on all of the projects that the kids are doing, so that I can take over Computer Productions and Computer Skills over the next week or so. I am slowly getting caught up on stuff.

After school, there was a staff meeting. We are supposed to turn off all of the monitors in the classroom when they are not in use, to save electricity. In addition, the school will be developing an interdisciplinary project next year that pertains to the Cache La Poudre River, which runs behind our campus. The science classes will be studying it, the english classes will be writing about it, the math classes will be analyzing it, the P.E. classes might be rafting on it, you get the idea. Sounds like a good idea. Won't start until next year, though.

After the meeting, I got home at about 4:15 p.m., just in time to start packing the kids up to go to CSU for our first "Seminar Night." Seminar night is a way for the Project Promise cohort to reconnect once per week during our student teaching and talk about our problems. It is also a time for PP instructors to fill our heads with more stuff. My head is pretty full at the moment, so I am having a hard time getting anything else in there.

Shannon has to work in the evenings, so Emma (4 year old) and Spencer (18 month old) went with me to class. Fortunately, Julia's kids were there as well and helped to watch and entertain them. We talked about our first week as teachers. Some folks are doing well, others not. I am doing pretty well, all things considered. It sounds like some cohort members are having a good time of things (Keith, Dave S., Mason,) others are deep into teaching already (Abby and Suzanne,) others don't think that they will be able to teach in the foreseeable future, because their teachers won't let them (Carolyn, Lynn.)

It was good to see everyone, but I was ready to leave pretty early in the evening. We got home at about 8:00 p.m. and the kids were in bed by 9:00 p.m. Then I got started on my lesson planning for this morning. That wrapped up at about 11:45 p.m. I am just loving these 17 hour days!