Long Week

A regular week is long enough as it is. Throw in a night of parent/teacher conferences on top, and its especially long and tiring! As a result, my post this week will be brief.

In Sacrifice for Freedom students started doing presentations about the country connected to their target language during World War Two. These presentations went very deep in showing how fascism destroyed each country. Now students will be selecting individual topics to tell stories from the war years. This is really exciting stuff!

This was Make a Difference Week at my school. This means we collected as much money and food as we could to donate to local food banks. Students really stepped up to the challenge and collected a bunch of food, surpassing our goal! It is really nice to see students coming together to give back to their communities this way.

Thursday night was what turned me into a zombie for a few days. After a regular day of school, we had 4 hours in the evening of conferences with parents. I understand how important it is for parents to talk to teachers, but man is this rough. I was not myself for a few days afterwards. I say every year I wish we didn't have to do it, but I guess its just one of those necessary evils. Next week is worse when we have conferences again on Tuesday night. I will say it is nice to be settled in to a routine with my classes and to be making progress in all my classes. However, with the new initiatives from the district, and the initiatives from the State, I'm afraid I am feeling more exhausted than ever.

Next week in my classes I will be discussing the candidates and the questions on Maine's ballot for the upcoming election.