Oy, but I’m rushing to get in a post for the day because I’m an overachiever who likes to have one post each day.
Sigh.
Today was busy. I ran errands after dragging myself from bed around the late hour of 10:30.
I picked up a few cases of water…
…because we have this little thing called “Issac” coming our way…
Then, I sat down to resume the dreaded scoring of the MAZE diagnostic tests I’d given my students…
After finishing that task, I began on the next…prepping for my lesson on Textbook Mapping…
It’s quite fascinating stuff, I tell you. The worst part about it is taping the pages together. I’ll have students do this same thing within small groups after I model the lesson to the whole class…
If you want to read more about Textbook Mapping, visit this site.
After that, the Mr. and I ran to Walmart, where we shopped with hundreds of our closest friends (not exactly) and bought a cart full of stuff we probably won’t need because, I’d venture to bet, the storm will turn west as storms usually do.
While at Walmart, I found these cute markers in the $1 bin. I picked up five packages…one for each table of students…and will keep my fingers crossed that they last the duration of this unit. I later went back and picked up five more for another teacher who loved the photos I sent to the reading group.
After that, I decided to watch the NASCAR race but couldn’t because the cable cords weren’t connected to the TV properly. I had gotten a wild hair yesterday when vacuuming and decided to rearrange the layout of my television, electronics shelving, and DVD shelves. I moved the TV from the corner, where it was blocking the window, to the center of the wall in front of my couches.
In the process, I undid the cables and thought I could rely on my memory to reconnect them.
HA!
I was wishing Rooster was around, let me tell you, as the Mr. and I resembled his parents trying to figure out technology.
Yikes!
heehee
In the end, I don’t think the problem was in the way I’d connected things. I think that the problem was with the DVR, which I finally unplugged to reset and then restarted.
Thus, I was able to watch NASCAR, complete my teacher self-assessment (albeit two days late…grrr…but I’m blaming technical difficulties…literally), and do a few other things that needed to be done.
Hence, I was a wee bit too busy to sit, reflect, and write a deep, meaningful post about my first week of school.
But tomorrow will be the day.
I can feel it!
I know you’re sitting on the edge of your seat in anticipation!
😉
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