Vacation @ Work

When needing a vacation from "work" @ work, consider this:

• Signing up for the computer lab,
• Visiting the library,
• If you have an outdoor classroom available at your school, use it!
• And if everything fails, switch your classroom for a day with another teacher... Especially if you have access to a classroom portible.

Life is lovely, as it should be, when you get to escape your every day routine outside of your classroom. How do I know? I'm at the computer lab all day today finding statistics on countries in Latin America. Yes, a wonderful demographics project that helps with benchmark concepts, use of technology in the classroom, and motivates students to learn in a different way than regular class... In other words, everybody is a winner with this plan! It's my first time @ the lab this year and this is what I have accomplished so far today with 1.5 hours still to go until the end of the day:

• Checked email
• Signed up for a mandatory ActivBoard training
• Signed up for a substitute for that day...
• Entered grades...
• Checked today's assignments...
• It's like I suddenly disappeared from the school, completely invisible... great feeling...
  
• In every class period, taught a mini-lesson
  
• The kids are "into it" :) and quiet!
• Kept myself hydrated by drinking lots of water
• Jammed to "Wait for Me" by Rebecca St. James - background music only, no vocals, as I've worked...
• and wrote this post in my blog.

After a rough start to my Monday... Auditorium duty and unexpected parent conferences, this was the perfect "planned" lesson/day.

In conclusion, the lesson today is:
Sign up for the computer lab OFTEN !!! :)

And enjoy your stress-free, drama-free, noise-free, and interruption-free, very productive & successful day! Yes, I feel like life is beautiful right now... :) The grass is always greener at the end of the rainbow, and yes, that pot of gold is waiting for you @ the other side of the bridge... And so on... You get my point. Cloud 9 below... :)