I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth. I promise. We've been out most of this week for snow (again) and have now officially used up our last built-in snow day. Anything after tomorrow will have to be made up :-(
At least this time we have enough to do something with. It's also nice that we're not the laughing stock of the whole country this time around.
You would think I would have spent this time knocking out the last bits of some projects to share, getting ahead on lesson plans, or even studying for the high school math gace that I signed up to take early next month. No... I did none of that.
I spent a ton of time with my little angel, and did some much needed de-stressing.
I'll go ahead and say in advance, though, that I won't be around much before March 4 (my test date) because I'll probably be spending every spare chance I get studying for that. I love math, and I've always had an aptitude for it, but I graduated in 2006, and the last time I saw some of this math was two years before that! I was a physics major at the time, so I can obviously handle it, but that's a long time to forget a lot of stuff! It'll be worth it in the end, though, because high school math is actually what I wanted to teach when I first changed my major, and it'll be great to finally see that dream eventually fulfilled.
I've already accepted a position for 5th grade math again next year, and I honestly have no desire to leave my kiddos yet. I love my 5th graders, and it's such a transitional period for a lot of kids that I love being able to watch and hopefully help guide them through that. Still, everyone who knows me has seen for a while that I will eventually feel like I need to move up to middle or high school. Hopefully with this test out of the way, when I feel ready, I'll be able to find something.
So with that said, I'll be taking a temporary hiatus from blogging until I have that test behind me and can return to making great things to use in my classroom (and share)!
