I was lucky enough to enjoy an extra day off last week during spring break, it was wonderful! I missed everyone, but I definitely need this time to catch up with other work.
Today was also relaxing. Everyone was getting used to being back in school after a week of sleeping in. There weren't any classes coming through today, so it was lesson planning and catch up day. [I failed to mention before that they do have fixed circulation days for teachers, but they are Tuesday through Thursday, so I haven't seen those in work yet.]
Marion needed to finish modifying an old lesson on non-fiction for the students to move to core curriculum. We changed each station, in some cases removing ones that did not work, and modified others for students with special needs. It was nice having each other to bounce ideas off of, and to fix small mistakes that we would have missed otherwise. It is being taught to 8th grade LA classes again all week, so it was important to finish up asap.
The rest of the time was spent preparing for the book fair (I'm spending Monday through Thursday there for it and am so excited!), printing out fine paperwork to put in with report cards, and processing books that they got from the county public library book-sale. The students were helpful in preparing the library for the bookfair, they made posters and put up decorations. The number of books they got from the book-sale was great! Many of them will end up on the "take it, or leave it" shelf, but the point is to get the books in students hands. There were a number of items that were in exceptionally great condition, so I watched how to enter them into the system and label them. Then Lizzy and I spent at least an hour mylar wrapping a bunch.
As nice as it was to have a "quiet" day, I missed the normally crazy pace and student interactions. Today motivated me to work on more lesson plans in the future, because the more I have under my belt, the more likely that teachers will want to work with me!
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