Alive and awake

[ringsandcoffee]

I'm alive, I'm out of bed, I have coffee, and I ate cold pizza for breakfast. Not a bad way to start the day.
Can't say as much for Edward the betta, who succumbed to whatever was ailing him. RIP Mr. Rochester!

I have 2 weeks of offical vacation - time with no work obligations or trips planned. However, I need to start planning for the coming year. My boss seems to think a combo class won't be a problem, even though he prefers not to have them; the district curriculum specialist had a less sunny outlook. We were just looking at math the day I asked for her insight, and she didn't know what to tell me. Nice.

Home is a mess, and I'm too lazy to remedy that. Later, yes, later. Soon, actually, since I need maintenance to fix my ceiling fan.

I still need a random icon, which requires a picture to base it off of. Yet another thing to do.

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Fortunately (or not, since I got into a discussion about my dislike of SS and sci. getting left behind at my school) I mostly focus on reading, math, and writing. Reading and writing are more on a continuum and I can teach the same skills just differentiate on my grading rubrics. We just mapped out the essential math standards for grades K-8, and 4th and 5th are very different skills. I might have to split the class up for that, and thus really teach procedures for working alone or in centers and not bugging me. Oh, did I mention we have a brand new math curriculum which uses manipulatives EVERYDAY? I won't have any help in my room; the only "assistance" will be when struggling readers get pulled for intervention.

Time to start planning!