Just one more work day until the break. I keep catching myself thinking it’s the winter break. That is how late this feels for me. (Did you know 11/28 is the LATEST Thanksgiving can be? This month the 1st was on a Friday. If the 1st were on a Wednesday or Thursday, there would be a fifth Thursday, and Thanksgiving wouldn’t be this late. This is literally the latest it can be in the month. NOT A FAN!)
This week has been brutal. I’ve gotten so much done. My grades are, for the most part, finalized. I just scored all the work that came in this week, including two sets of test. I commented on all the 1A students’ free writing books. I put barcodes on all the books in the 1B library. I put the 1B classes into groups and chose a book for each group (which I will give them tomorrow and we will start after the break). I only have two big work projects to do over the break, and I’m quite proud of that.
I am so, so SO happy that tomorrow is Friday and by 3:05pm I will be on my first big break of the school year. Let’s do this!
Congratulations! Hope this means you really get the break as a time of restoration and family and some time for self care as well. Know you will be super busy also.
Sending you good wishes that your school day goes wonderfully today and you get to really exhale.
I was wondering about Thanksgiving yesterday and looked this up. My sisters’ birthday is the 29th, so I wondered if they had had a Thanksgiving birthday. Looks like when Thanksgiving was new it was the last Thursday in November, so it could have been the 29th (and was), but when they changed it to the 4th Thursday, it no longer happens. The change was made to extend the Christmas shopping season, so it’s Capitalism you have to thank for it not being this late very often.
Enjoy your break, you’ve earned it.
Good for you for getting so much stuff done, now go on and enjoy your time off!!