So many projects came home from school the end of June, ready to be completed by Labor Day and the beginning of the new school year. Those projects are still awaiting completion - I will assume that I will get down to true business within the next few days. I know I have to in order to feel ready to take on the new school year.
I reflect back onto what was have accomplished:
- Successful trip to Nashville, TN with FCCLA - 3 Silver awards for my fabulous middle school students!
- Another Extended School Year program with the amazing special needs students at Southern Regional. A great student produced play on the importance of Decision Making - something we all need to practice daily.
- Participation and completion of the #clmooc - Making Learning Connected through the National Writing Project. I had so many "Makes" I can't remember them all. Currently planning on how I can integrate these into my curriculum - the students will love them, just hope there is enough time to complete them all in my short, quarterly courses.
- Packing, Moving and Unpacking of hundreds of boxes as we moved the parental unit into an amazing retirement community. They are having fun, but I truly do not want to see another moving box for years!
- Transcribing my Great-Great Grandmothers correspondence from 1899-1919. I learned so much about her life, her dreams and fears, and the issues that were faced by women of that era. Not much has changed!
- Competed the braided rug - Shades of the Sea - that I began back in March. This rug has been a calming project, as I watched it grow from strips of wool to a 5 ft x 4 ft rug. It is estimated that a braided rug takes 8 hours for 1 ft of braiding to be accomplished - so my 20 sq ft rug represents 160 hours of work!
So as the summer comes to an end, I guess I MADE some headway. Now on to finish those last few projects:
Lesson Plans
Moving daughter # 2
FCCLA planning for next year
Research for capstone
clean the "project cave"
etc, etc...
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