Sunday...

It's beautiful outside... low 80's, sunny, and just a slight breeze of 5-10 miles per hour. It would be a great day to be by the pool, but I will most likely not get to leave my apartment...

I actually slept in today! I didn't get up until about 10:00am, which is a feat of gigantic proportions. Since I am usually up before 6:00am during the week, it is pretty hard to sleep in on Sundays, even when I want to. I got up, ate some leftover pizza (that I got to take home from the "celebration" my students and I had for the last day of Saturday school), and have been pretty much working on science lesson plans all day. My students only have science in my classroom for the next couple of days (no math) so I need to be prepared with an arsenal of science projects, games, worksheets, ect. to review for the science TAKS and keep them engaged.

The third grade will be testing on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week so my students will not be going to science lab. This means that I will be teaching them science lab as well. I will be teaching one class for 3 1/2 hours straight - just science. BLAH! Hopefully I will have enough material to mix it up and keep everyone, including myself, from going crazy.

On a different note. I fly home to Minnesota on Wednesday right after school. I will be leaving school to go to the airport and will be arriving in Minneapolis later that evening. I am excited to be going home! I will not be missing much at school so this works out well. My students will be testing on Thursday (science TAKS), which I cannot be in the classroom for anyway and would be teaching/substituting for who ever is testing my students. On Friday my students have a half day of school and will most likely not be doing too much after an entire day of testing on Thursday (yes, the TAKS tests take the entire school day - sometimes even longer!).

Have a great week everyone! And to some of you... See You Soon!
- Joe