Tip of the Week- Where did the year go?

Whoa! Where did the year go?


They say the older you get the faster time flies. I think that this is the first year where I truly felt this happen. It feels like just a few days ago that I was setting up my classroom and learning my student's names. Now we are just days away from the "100th Day"!

This time of the year is a good time to reflect, catch-up, organize and plan for the next part of the year.

When I return in January I like to complete a few tasks. They are:


Review student portfolios
Make sure all assessments are updated and current
Complete "running records" on students who are reading
Look over the state goals and district expectations and make sure we are about ½ way through them
Review plan book and see what gaps there might have been
Create ideas on how to push the higher students to challenge them
Review interventions for lower performing students to bring them up
Prepare for student conferences, have conferences with "key" students

Before you know it Spring Break will be here. Take a few hours to prepare a little now so you have less to do at the end of the year when it all piles up. Time flies!