Last week we had 4 days as Labor Day kept us home. Headed into week three – which is our first full week of classes, and it promises to be an exhausting one with back to school night on Tuesday and the Coastal BTSN at Totem Middle School.
Prepping to send out the newsletter – which is not very content heavy yet – I shared it first with Pete and Harrison (principal and AP) because I want to include this video: https://youtu.be/dlXTHuDB15c?si=bdHHXTGINjyImb1I
As it contains the faces of students, I want to make sure it is okay to share.
Back to the little lessons. I must remember that parents are pretty awesome. I am intentionally reaching out to parents this year…and I need to systematically call parents whose kids are winning. Lessons learned this week include:
- parents are pretty ok
- I can suffer the pain of ingrown toenails as long as I see an end in sight…but while that end happened on Sunday, I feel I may be developing an infection in my right toe so I will stop by the doctor’s office on the way home from school today to get it checked.
- Leaving campus with tomorrow in mind and physically set up is the only way to go.
- Plans for drinks need to be firmed up. I don’t mind drinks…I mind spills.
- Bathroom passes are a huge source of irritation to me and yet I feel I can’t fix it.
- Writing this blog on Sundays as planned will make them much better.
Moving forward, I will strive to take more video of activities in order to archive our happenings in class.
Merging my love for making spinning playlists and materials development, I made this video for developing the muscle memory: https://youtu.be/Tw8ceBIP__c
I will test it out to see if it works for engagement. signing off with hopes of returning before the end of the week.
Learning is why. 