Five Good Things

It's the final 24-hour interval of a 3 24-hour interval weekend. I have got to acknowledge that this makes me a piffling sad. As much equally I honey schoolhouse together with teaching, nosotros all demand a combat of a interruption instantly together with again. To cheer myself up, I'm going to weblog virtually v skillful things that have got happened recently.

1. GEOMETILES

Friday, I got a laid of Geometiles (affiliate link) inward the mail. The makers of Geometiles contacted me via my weblog to inquire if I would hold upwardly willing to write a review inward telephone substitution for a costless set. Of course, I said yes! My review isn't due until October, together with thence I've got a amount calendar month of playing ahead of me to prepare!

2. BASE TEN BLOCKS

I real received 2 shipments on Friday. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar month or together with thence ago, NAEIR had Base 10 Blocks on their website for super cheap. 10 sets for $4 cheap! Even though I learn high school, I decided to invest inward a set. I intend these volition larn lots of usage amongst my math concepts students when nosotros review decimals after this year.

3. FEELING BETTER

Somehow, I managed to come upwardly downward amongst a mutual frigidity during the minute calendar week of school. Usually, my immune arrangement holds off until Oct to larn sick. Not this year! This was a double bummer because it feels similar I simply got over the mutual frigidity I had inward July when nosotros were inward Australia. But, I'm feeling much, much amend already. I've fifty-fifty managed to larn closed to schoolhouse move done over the weekend.

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 FUN MATH PUZZLE + VISIT FROM Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 RABBIT

Friday, I was NOT feeling well. See #3 above. You know it's obvious that you're sick when a pupil walks inward the room together with asks "Why is your olfactory organ red?" Nice to run into you, too. I couldn't comport for my Algebra 1 students to larn behind, together with thence I pushed through our gild of operations lesson fifty-fifty though I was NOT feeling it. I did laissez passer myself closed to grace together with accept it slowly amongst my math concepts together with chemical scientific discipline classes. We did the Crazy Eights puzzle from School of Fisher. And, the biological scientific discipline bunny came to see for role of the class menstruation inward chemistry.

5. ALL MY LESSONS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS WEEK!

For my entire educational activity career, I have got been a final infinitesimal planner. This year, I'm trying to rest ahead. So, each weekend, I've been writing out my lesson plans for the upcoming week, creating whatsoever foldables, activities, etc., together with creating my SMARTboard files for the ENTIRE week. I nevertheless have got to practice a combat of tweaking from 24-hour interval to day, but it feels together with thence skillful to larn to schoolhouse inward the forenoon together with know that I don't have got a 1000000 things to practice simply to larn create for the day. I'm starting to experience genuinely organized for the origin fourth dimension ever!