Day before yesterday it rained packages at our house. After months of thinking, my curriculum plans were made and thanks to Rainbow Resource and Amazon they are largely fulfilled. This coincided with the discovery of a teacher planning app that felt more natural to me than my previous planner. It's a bit touchy, and has wiped out as much as three days of plans, but it's more open, simple style lets me record only what I need as I want.
Most of the booty was stored in the Locked Door Room (see previous post) to wait as a surprise for the school year, but the teacher books went to my newly cleaned classroom desk. I drafted a schedule and then it began. Planning, planning, planning. Now that I had a schedule and the resources necessary to make decisions about what to do when all I had to do was start putting all those puzzle pieces together. First a subject, then a full day, then a week and then...to save the world! Once I've planned a month, no, a trimester, no, the whole year, then I can do auxiliary things like make all the photocopies and organize supplies.
And then I couldn't sleep. It's all good, but it's too much. Today I spent hiding from my planner and curriculum guides and the copier. I had to do summer school, but that's different. We went to the library. I almost stayed out of the shelves about next year's time period, but our third wanted to know about William Penn. Kurt brought home pizza and we watched Real Steel (great movie for MI and engineers). My desk is calling and all my stuff awaits, but I'm hiding in Kurt's office writing up a post.
Tomorrow I'll devote to physical preparations for next year and going through my to do list before another school year burns me up.
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