Graduation season is here

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 We have 5 weeks of school left and I know from previous experience that those 5 weeks will fly by. I have already reached the point where I'm trying to figure what I can squeeze in during the remaining time and the answer is not much. 

But more important is that it is graduation season. I am in charge of putting the program together and another teacher and I are in charge of the whole ceremony. I don't mind doing it, I actually kind of like doing it, but there can be stressful moments. Like getting the program together. There is information I need to gather from other people and I literally didn't get that information until yesterday. The program was due on the 11th. UGH!!!! But that's okay, it all worked out. 

Just now, during my meditation, all I could think about was how the graduates will move. How they will enter the stage, how they will get to their seats, how they will get their diplomas, etc. I'm trying to meditate and that stuff is all running through my head. Crazy. So much for meditation. Of course, we have extenders for the stage and won't be able to put them up until almost the day of graduation. So not being able to see those is a little stressful. I've seen them off the stage but not on, so I'm not 100% sure what they will be like. On top of that, I'm not where I want to be with my classes and am a little paralyzed trying to figure out what to squeeze in and how. Yeah, so looking forward to summer as long as I get through these 5 weeks. I also need to sit down and figure out what my finals are going to be. I want to give the assessments and I may use those as the finals. But those are multiple choice. Maybe I'll do like I did last year. One day of written exams - the word problems, and one day of multiple choice. That should work. We'll see, I don't have to decide right now but I do need to start thinking about it. Maybe a summative task and a test. That could work.....I'll think about it. Maybe just the assessment and the summative task. Whatever their improvement is will be their grade on the test and then the summative task. That would make life so much easier on me. Hmmmm..... thoughts. 

Next week we do dissections in biology. I'm kind of looking forward to that, it's been years since I dissected anything, but I'm also kind of not looking forward to it because those guys are jerks. 

Okay, my tree has grown and it is a traffic duty morning. 

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