Planning is key

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 If I spend a couple of hours on the weekend planning and a couple of hours on Monday getting things ready, life is good. I don't have to plan in super detail, unless I'm doing something special, I just have to have a concrete idea of what is happening. 

Monday/Tuesday in biology we did an activity that I'm not sure about. We did a timeline of whale fossils, then had to 'guess' what the intermediate animal might have looked like. Then we did a DNA comparison to see who the whale is most closely related to. It's a good way to show really briefly how they piece together timelines for evolution and how they determine relatedness, but it's  a little boring. If I teach biology again next year, and that's a big if, I may revamp this whole thing. 

Which leads to thoughts of next year. I probably won't be teaching biology next year. All these biology students will now be in chemistry and it looks like we have enough students for an AP chemistry class. So I might have a very, very full schedule next year. I'm okay with that. I have a good AP curriculum and really am ready to roll. And I'm kind of looking forward to it. It's been a hot minute since I taught AP chemistry and I do enjoy teaching it. 

Other than that, things are going well at school. We have an all district meeting on Friday which means a few hours in Queen Creek. No complaining. Just an observation. 

Okay, that's it I'm out. Traffic duty this morning.

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