5:30 am – Alarm…Snooze
5:53 – Peel myself out of the bed. Find something to wear. Go wake my boys. Dress Sam while he’s still sleeping and Ben’s talking to me from his crib. Dress Ben. Make lunch, pour cups of milk, make breakfast, make coffee, rush children out door…
6:30 – Take two trips to the car, one with bags, one with children.
7:15 – Drop both kids at daycare
7:30 – Get to work. Climb three flights to classroom.
7:40 – Finally get to classroom. Hmmm…maybe I should make some more copies, I never have enough copies. Go wait in line at the copier. Uh-oh, copier jammed, doesn’t look good. Oh well, hope I have enough for the morning.
7:55 – Change the date and day on the whiteboard, collect donations for Thanksgiving baskets.
8:10 – Listen to morning announcements, try to take attendance in Powerschool. Won’t load, ugh, call the office with attendance. First class comes in…
Co-taught class – put on FM transmitter, make sure it’s on, and I begin. Collect homework, discuss multiplication of fractions, how do model one-half of one-third with the area model. Now with a length model…
8:55 – Bell rings, next class, “Uh, I’ve been absent for nine days, did I miss anything?” Multiplication of fractions.
9:46 – Bell rings, Prep. Tech guy comes in. Thank goodness, my LCD projector was knocked onto the floor Friday when I was out. It is working, but is it really okay. Seems to be.
Oh yeah, and my computer stopped printing fractions. I have to send all my files home in order to print them. That’s fun!
He finds the fix, no pictures on my problems…well that’s boring. When are we getting new computers, Christmas, maybe… Can he fix my clock? It was 40 minutes slow, but since daylight savings it’s 20 minutes fast. Nope.
10:37 – Next class…Multiply fractions
11:28 – Lunch, then directed study.
12:43 – Next class, multiply fractions
1:34 – Next class, multiply fractions
2:25 – End of the day. Students want to know if they are missing any work. Um, it’s the last day of the term.
Try to make more copies, do a little grading, start entering report card comments.
3:00 – Out the door to daycare. Pick kids up, both napped in good moods. Begin the drive home.
4:15 – Get home. Take two trips in, one with the kids, one with the stuff. Turn on the oven. Wash a chicken. Put chicken in the oven. Go play downstairs with the kids.
4:45 – What’s that noise? Oh yeah, the smoke alarm…
5:45 – Dinner’s ready, hubby walks in the door. Perfect timing.
7:00 – Ben to bed. Begin reading Twitter. Need to get caught up, need to get caught up.
8:00 – Sam to bed. Start writing….
9:00 – Go to bed.
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