Busy Week.

This week has been a crazy mixed up week! The first thing that threw everything off was that we had Halloween parties on Thursday. The way my PDS does this party is that students have the option to go home and change into their costumes and then parents bring them back to school at a certain time, they parade around the high school football field, and then they come back inside for the party. The fifth grade teachers decided to just show a movie in their homerooms because students would be leaving at 11. My students watched a movie and worked on some crafts we were going to use to to decorate the classroom. The students were extremely crazy, so it was nice to have some "down time" for them. On Friday, due to the weather and power outages, our county was operating on a 2 hour delay. This was also supposed to be 5th grade career day. We worked it out that some parents would come on Friday as planned, but some would also need to come on Monday too. Now our Monday schedule is messed up because not only are we having parents coming in the morning but our PTA also rented a "dome theater" and our students are going to view a program in the afternoon! Thursday next week is a two hour early dismissal, so next week will be messed up too. As a student in elementary school I loved these disruptions but as a teacher I find them annoying! Hopefully soon our schedule will settle down, and we can get back into the learning process!