We're finally at the end of a two week marathon of extra district work. Week one was spent collaborating on an 8th grade pacing guide with the district consulting firm. In our second week of "summer vacation," I started teaching an enrichment class in the morning and complete a 21st century skills "camp" in the afternoon. For some reason this process made all of us very tired. This pic of Emily and our pal, Raymond, represents the beginning of some kind of summer ahhh. For the next three weeks Emily will join me and my 8th grade students in the enrichment class focused on project-based learning and 21st century skills. That will be only half days. In the afternoons, we are going to keep up on our math skills & finish up a couple of novel series (Percy Jackson, Haddix's Missing Series, and the final installment of the Hunger Games, Mockingjay). We also plan to paint all the wood work, repaint the landing upstairs, go swimming, see afternoon movies, go to some museums (Em's begging to go to the WW1 museum again), and have our friends over to hang out. I do have a couple of new objectives for my 8th graders that need to be roughed out for next year, but that must be secondary to my kids this summer. We are preparing our hearts and minds for a lot of changes in the next year, and we want to be rested and and ready. July is our totally free month and I plan to document the fun here so we can remember it when we are stressed and crazy in the fall. To be continued....
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