Snow Days!

So this past week was really crazy at my school. All of South Eastern Michigan was covered in snow Monday morning resulting in a snow day for most schools in the area. Tuesday morning I woke up to icy roads (it was too cold for the salt to melt the snow and what did melt turned to ice!) and another snow day. Wednesday is my lab day. This gave me a day to reorganize and revamp my lesson plans. Thursday we had our winter performing arts assembly. This was a chance to see our band, choir, and dance groups perform. They did a great job and put on a great performance (especially since they missed two days of practice due to those snow days!). Friday we had building problems and school was canceled again. However, this time the staff still reported. My fellow Algebra teachers and I worked on updating our pacing guide. Our courses we are off track from where we wanted to be. Some topics took longer to get students to master and other topics went faster than we anticipated, but we are still behind schedule. We used this day to plan the rest of 1st semester (which ends the first week of February for us). Now instead of worrying about how far behind we are we can focus on the new pacing plan which we will continue to update throughout the year.

Happy Holidays to everyone! Enjoy your winter break and some much deserved time to relax!