Plan For It. Roll With It.

This past week was the craziest so far.  I wish I could remember more to tell you, but with the fast pace and full schedule, it all sort of blurred together in the end.  With early outs (as a teacher, I now despise early dismissals), evacuation drills, sick students, sick paras, and parent notes, it was needless to say that I was pooped by the end of the week!

Monday and Tuesday were early outs.  Well...so was Wednesday, but that's an every week thing.  One thing about Cindy and I, we stick around and plan and prepare.  We don't leave right after the kids leave.  Monday Cindy and I went to Iowa Alternate Assessment training until 5.  One of my wonderful paras also had a birthday on Monday so we all had supper to celebrate.  Wednesday I had mentor training until 6:30.  Thursday there was a meeting after school as well as a PTO meeting I had to go to and introduce myself as a new teacher.  One of my paras was out sick on Wednesday and Thursday.  Cindy, Shannon and I took turns with her student on Wednesday and then it was basically me with him on Thursday. 

This kid is so stinking funny!  He's HUGE compared to his kindergarten classmates.  He looks like a miniature sumo wrestler.  He is exhausting in a good way.  We have so much fun together and he wants to learn soooooo bad, but at the end of the day, I was pooped.  I went home, ate supper, took a shower, talked to Dustin and was in bed way before 10!

Cindy and I's conversations about lesson planning involve a lot of what we have planned, but haven't been able to get to due to early dismissals and such.  I keep telling her that we will plan for it and then roll with it.  It has really become our motto.  One of our student's attendance is heavily tied to the temperature outside.  We keep planning lessons like he'll be there and then roll with it the next day.

We can make all the plans we want, but ultimately, we don't have much control.  The kids have a lot of control as far as attendance, behavior, naps during nap time that keep going, and then there are the practice drills too.  God tells us that we can make all the plans we want, but ultimately His plans prevail.

Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

-Proverbs 19:21

So for now, we're going to keep acting like every day will have a normal dismissal and that we'll have all of our students and then we'll roll with it when we really get to that day.