Today was a really good day at school. We are studying phase change, so I started with my phase change concept map, talked about energy transfer, blew their minds by showing them that freezing and melting are warming processes, and got the new project sheet out. I spent almost all of Sunday (minus a few episodes of Psych) prepping for this week, and it is paying off so far! I made the homework project, AP prep sheets, homework templates for my AP students (who sent me on treasure hunts for problems and answers in the first homework they turned in), made a huge shopping list for all the labs this week, and graded every shred of paper anyone had turned in. It was a productive day.
On Mondays, I have a block of freshman physics, a block of AP, lunch, planning, and another block of freshmen physics. Tuesdays is three blocks of freshmen physics in a row, so I use that first block to test out my worksheets and fix any mistakes or misunderstandings or issues so that the other blocks run more smoothly. But! Today I did not have to make any changes! Everything went as smoothly as I had planned. The station switching is a little rough, and it's hard to balance the ones who write one almost-sentence and call it done with the ones who write a medium-length thesis and not have someone waiting around bored, but I'm sure it'll work out fine.
I just finished my grocery list and weekly meal-plan, so things are looking well-prepared for this week on the home front, also.
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