This morning's blog is a Pastichio Medley of some thoughts bopping around my head. I might expand some of these ideas into a separate post later, but for now I just need them outta my head:
- There are no bad days on vacation, right? Haha, of course that is false, but it's one of the lies we tell ourselves on a rough Tuesday at work. I've been fairly productive in terms of home chores like landscaping, and made some progress on FlipTech conference planning, but very little schoolwork. I'll find out soon whether that's a mistake, or the brain refresh that I needed....
- Gerry Marchand has a piece about countdowns to summer that clicked with me. I have been troubled before by those very public displays of "Look How Long Until We Get To Be Apart Forever." I've been thinking about a countUP on the whiteboard of all the days we have been learning, interacting, making mistakes, etc. As the number gets bigger, we're all smarter and better and closer than before.
- As I look ahead to the last few weeks of school, I feel like I need to focus on gamifying those units OR raising my flipped game. I don't think I have the energy/resources/ability to do both of them well, so I need to make a choice. Like, today is when I need to decide! I need to write a pros/cons list after I finish this post.
We couldn't find any "6" candles, so my children improvised....
- My oldest child turned 16 yesterday! I remember that was a really rough year for me (all of 11th grade because I have an August birthday), so the milestone makes me extra-conscious of doing what I need to help him through this teenager time.
- Back to my first bullet item: Is vacation a good time or bad time to get sick?? My daughter's got the flu and I'm feeling some symptoms but could be psychosomatic. On the one hand I don't need sub plans, but on the other it feels like wasted 'fun days'
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