A Day in the Life - 9/11/16

It's Sunday, and it's the 11th day of the month. I have chosen to participate in the Day in the Life (DITL) project where teachers from all over share what it's like to be a teacher for a day. I'll be posting consistently on the 11th of each month, even if it's not a school day; such as today. 

So here goes tonight's post, beginning at 11:33 at night. I doubt I'll hit publish before midnight...

5:23 am.

About the normal waking time and animals don't know what day of the week it is like I do. The house is quite. I remember that it's the 11th. September the 11th. My DITL post day, and a very sobering Remembrance Day. How is it that 15 years has past? How is it that the students in my classroom weren't even born when the Terrorist Attacks happen? They are so very vivid in my memory, I am so very thankful that they are not in theirs. This day. Oh. This day.  Glad this day is Sunday, so I don't have to try to keep it all together in front of my students. 

The house is still & quite so I'm going to use this peaceful time to lay here and be still, think & pray. 

8:24 am.

Time to get up for the day. Thankful it's Sunday and that I was able to sneak back in a few extra hours of sleep. 

9:00 am 

Arrived BJs Wholesale club as it opens and so we (hubby and I) along with my awesome concessions stand co-lead for my sons football team can make our purchase to restock after Friday's home opener. It was a well attended game, so our stock was wiped out! 

11:16 am

Finally pulling out of BJs Wholesale club and off to the school to get into the concession stand to put away the two trunk loads of items we stocked up on. Glad its a bit cooler of a day, the heat here has been unbearable especially in unairconditioned places like the concession stand. 

12:45 pm 

Leaving the school to head home. Hubby is driving, so I am going to check my Twitter and the #MTBoS feed. Scored this 3 act task regarding a snafu in traffic around my hometown.  From this tweet and of course this one too. 

1:10 pm

Arrive home, unpack the little bit of food that can't be left at the stand and head upstairs to Mount Laundry-more. Start a load of laundry and check on my son who was injured during a play near half-time during Friday's game. Pause and reflect to be thankful that his injury is minor. 

1:30 pm

Settle down into my work zone in my bedroom and begin to grade papers.  This has the making to be a long day. I like to highlight the mistakes students make first, then go back and give them prompting feedback to help them discover their mistakes. When you have small class sizes, this is great. But when you have class sizes of 33, it can bog you down if you decide to do it all at once. On a Sunday. Starting at 1:30.  But hey, I have my cat, and another pile of laundry to keep me company....

5:00 pm

Hubby comes up to remind me we have dinner plans to celebrate a friend's birthday.  We're supposed to be there at 5:30, so got to get prettied up. 

5:30 pm 

Dinner with friends. It was nice to get out, have conversation and forget about all that is around. 

7:13 pm

Back to reality. Laundry and grading. 

9:00 pm

Realizing as I analyze these kiddos quizzes, they didn't master some concepts from previous grades. So I decide that tomorrow's lesson will include 1/2 of my block to be flex grouping. I'm going to focus on the top level of questions on my quiz which was operations with fractions. Separate the kiddos out based on what level of mastery they displayed and get them doing some center/independent work, work with me, or on Stileapp.com to help them make more connections. 

10:50 pm

Hubby comes to bed - I'm still in my work zone, in our bedroom. He doesn't mind that my light is on... just crawls in and falls asleep. I'm quickly becoming jealous, but I have my Stileapp lessons to put together. I'm so glad that the platform is easy to use!

11:30 pm 

Ok. Done and prepped for tomorrow. Have to-do list started. Sure I will think of more:

1. Scan the kiddos quizzes so I have a copy for future reference. 
2. Contact Parents re: First MathCounts meeting is this Tuesday. 
3. Print one copy of each Fraction worksheet that I used for the Stileapp lessons so I have a hard copy, just in case. 
4. Average the leveled grades from the quizzes and enter them into the grading system. 

And that's my DITL. It's now 12:03. Hubby is snoring. And it's lights out for me too. 

Good night folks!