It was a VERY LONG day at work today. Our schedule has been altered for Wednesdays and Thursdays until MAP testing time. Which, it will probably be altered then, too. Anyway, my planning period was first thing this morning. My library time was messed up because of this so, besides the very short 30 minutes for lunch, my students and I were stuck in the room together without a break most of the day.
I mean we got as much of a break as we would have on a Monday, but it did not break up the afternoon like usual. That is really hard on first graders, and first grade teachers. I'll be glad when that damned test is over. It screws up my life every year and my students don't even take it. It's very irritating because there is all this research, and even one of the authors of the test, that says doing this DOES NOT help test scores, but in fact can hurt them.
It's funny because every time we want to do something that the district does not want us to do, they tell us they are stopping it because it has not increased test scores. Well, this has not helped our test scores, yet we do it every year anyway.
Tonight was swim night. I did not get in the water, though. I'm afraid of messing up my ear more. I really wish it would get better. I keep hearing popping in the back of it, but it has not cleared up yet. It's really getting old.
My water aerobic class either has a new teacher, or had a sub tonight. I hope it was just a sub. Michaela did a great job in the water tonight. She seems to really enjoy the swimming.
On the way home we picked up girl scout cookies. Next will be the job of sorting them. That will be part of our very busy weekend ahead of us. I'm kind of looking forward to Sunday afternoon when I can take a few breaths. I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to do laundry. I'm sure I'll get it done some how.
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