Summer's Just Around the Corner

It's a steep hill lleft to climb. Report cards, checking in and out students, cleaning up our room.

Then -- a wedding or two, changes, perhaps a new driver in the family.  It's going to be an exciting adventure and I'm daunted by it all.

Tha's okay.  I'm going to read the Science textbook and do the Integrated Math. I'm going to create a syllabus calendar so my students can finish their textbooks.  Maybe I'll write an academic policy so I'm not such a pushover.

Then I'm going to make paper junk.  And go to the beach, read, get an ipod that works, chill out to the music, hike and have lunch with friends, stay healthy. Sleep until I'm not exhausted.  Go to the library and maybe a concert or two (free, if possible),  Spend time with the people I love.

I got this.

Umm, I hope.

Summer 2015

I learned a lot this summer.  One thing I learned is to let myself make stupid crafts.  I'm not hurting anyone.  I will post some of my creations soon.

Another is that Pythagoras was smart and his theorem means something:  Pythagorean Theorem

 I'm still working on thoughts about the mindful classroom The Mindful Classroom.  And I got to do a lot of fun things this summer.  

I saw this:

I hiked this:

I walked this:

And this:

Interactive Spinning YoYo Card

It's Raining and I'm Thinking of Summer :)

and lazy days and happiness! 

The Barbarian Nurseries

I finished this book this morning. Not in the balanced way I have read all summer, but in my old way: swallowing it all in one gulp, staying up past midnight. My reward for my "bad" behavior was breakfast in bed, and I am so spoiled. And loved.

And the book was funny, insightful and a bit close to my own experience with startups and over-consumption.I obviously loved it since I've admitted I couldn't put it down.

One More Week

One more week to totally rest and then it starts. Contacting parents, improving knowledge, sharpening skills. I don't know, I never know if I am truly up to the task. But I found this from one of my favorite authors in my Facebook this morning:  https://m.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn&_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=524013137728334&id=115632081899777&ref=bookmark and I know I can keep on trying, doing my best, putting one foot in front of the other.

Q is for Quarry

So, I do recommend this book by Sue Grafton if you like a mystery set in the California desert:  Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton  -- based on an unsolved Santa Barbara crime. Grafton, after seeing the file arranged for the still unknown victim to be buried with dignity and then set about writing a fictional account of what could have been. Not going to change your life, but a fun beach read, which is where I finished it.