1st math test of the year (Data Analysis & Statistics): finished writing.
1st science quiz of the year (What is Physical Science?): needs to be corrected.
Lots of miscellaneous papers in my school bag: have been put off yet again.
Unit Plan for the next 3 weeks: so not even started yet.
The idea of crawling into bed at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and staying there: YAY FRIDAY!
My greatest pleasure in life now: going to bed early.
This paperwork disaster is my classroom. No more bulletin boards, no more posters, no more students in desks. Just lots and lots of paper. This is me trying to get organized on multiple levels. The first is making sure I have enough evidence to back up the 20 F's I gave out (that is, for a little more perspective on the numbers, equivalent to the entirety of my homeroom class this year). Two kids to a desk--that's eight per group of four desks--with their tests and quizzes and class assignments stacking up as I clean out what's in my desk and my file cabinet. There is more paper at home.
The rest of the papers piled up in my room are worksheets and assignments that will be reused in the future, organized mostly by subject (fractions, decimals, place value, geometry, multiplication practice, integers, etc) so that I can put together the beginnings of a filing system which will hopefully make planning that much easier for next year.
And yes, there will be a next year. I just signed my new contract today. I've been told I'll be teaching science in addition to math. I sincerely hope this is not true, but at least this time I have two-and-a-half months warning to try and become a physical science expert before the kids find me out for the fraud I am.
