Is there ever enough time in the day? Of course not! Today is an incredibly busy day for me. I have things I need to do before I leave for my conference tomorrow at home – I’m taking my husband and kids with me for a mini vacation so I have to pack for me and them. I have to leave substitute plans and unfortunately my students will be having two different subs. I am still putting the finishing touches on my presentation – nothing like waiting until the last minute.
OK, so everything I mentioned really has nothing to do with my actual job of teaching today. Isn’t that how it often is. Our administrators give us extra jobs and reports to do. Here, tour this parent around the building, and by the way, during your prep time, test this child and see if he is ready to start __next year. Hello! I’m a teacher. I need to teach!
You may not have the same exact situation as me but I bet you feel like you never have enough time. I had some unfortunate circumstances collide at the same time and became unavoidably busy. But isn’t that life. Something is always coming at us out of the blue. We are teachers, perhaps we are parents and spouses. That’s life. So now what do we do?
When you find our please let me know!
Meanwhile, when I actually stop to take a breath – which is what I’m doing RIGHT NOW – I can notice that my kindergarteners did an absolutely fantastic job writing three sentences about morning, afternoon and evening in their journals. When I listened, I heard them say; “Hey, there’s the phonogram ‘oo’ as in boot in afternoon.” “Yeah and there’s our new phonogram ‘ar’ as in jar . . .” Some really great learning is going on and once I can take a breath I can really enjoy it. I am very lucky – I have a job I love, how many people can say that? So, in spite of my busyness and my braining whirling, I am taking this break to readjust my thinking for the day, and I am putting myself back into teaching mode and am ready to enjoy my kindergarteners . . .as soon as they return from recess!
2 responses so far ↓
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Sue Waters
// Apr 10, 2008 at 1:05 am
Hi Amie – I followed your comment on Lee’s blog across to your blog and wanted to say welcome to blogging. I really like the picture you’ve used at the start of this post; such excellent visual that grabs attention and reminds me of our busy days. Good luck with your blogging.
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Aleli
// Apr 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I believe your really busy everyday but i am sure your enjoying. I think you need rest sometimes. I guess i will visit your website more often.
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