What a Week!

Hi folks, just writing today to let you know I have not abandoned you or this blog.  This week has just been insane!

This has been a really lab-heavy week, which means lots of planning, setting up, tearing down, and setting up for the next day.  Wednesday, a lab that was supposed to take the rest of class was done with about 30-40 minutes to spare.  Enter Bill Nye.  Always a life-saver... except I had planned to show him the next day instead!  Enter creating a last-minute worksheet and making copies yesterday morning before students started showing up!

Today is my interview for the teaching award thing.  This week, I needed to put together a portfolio to bring with me.  I kept shrugging it off.  I keep a large portfolio of everything we do in class, so I figured the portfolio would practically make itself.  Wrong.  I was at school til 6:00 yesterday putting it together.  Being gone today also means I have a substitute teacher.  This is my first time having a sub, so I was running around yesterday asking what I needed to leave the sub and also trying to clean up/put away stuff so the sub would be able to FIND my lesson plans on my desk.

Missing today also means that I lose my planning period and any potential after-school productivity.  So this morning, I planned out what we're doing Monday after notes (yes, I'm THAT behind!) and worked a bit more on my Exploring Light Extravaganza planned for next Thursday.  Other things I've done this morning (yes, between when I get to school at 6:00 and now): I wrote up Monday's activity, glued some craft sticks together to represent polarizing filters, replaced the air fresheners in my room so it wouldn't smell like sewage (that's a whole other issue!), and printed off tests to put in for copies.

One more indicator of what my week has been like... this morning, I ironed a pair of khaki pants on the floor.  I've been too busy this week to do it before today, and our ironing board also serves as a catch-all in our guest room, so I didn't have time to clean it off.  So yep, 5:30 this morning I was ironing pants on my floor.  I wonder if that will come up in my interview... :)

Stay tuned for next week.  I visited family next week, so I should have some good Addison pictures to share. You know... once I get a chance to look at them!!!