Too much to do/take care of yourself/flashmybrain

So I'm sitting here, looking at QUIA grades on things that I told the Latin 3's that I wanted done by tomorrow.  2 people, maybe 3 have looked at the items. I know they are probably overwhelmed with end of the year stuff, but it's subjunctive stuff that I think is really pretty good stuff and will make it so much easier to forge ahead if it were done.

I desperately need to sit down and do lesson plans. WHEN am I started my Martial unit that I keep talking about?  Hohum. I guess NEXT week??????

Maybe I should figure out what I'm doing this week????

Crumbs.

And in between I've been juggling doctors appts.  It is so easy when you are teaching to decide that everything and everyone else comes first, and your health and sanity come last.  Wrong.   I had a doc on Friday telling me that I need to get more exercise. NO DUH!  I wanted to shout. TELL ME WHERE TO FIT IT IN!

You know what?   You just do.  You just have to. That's all there is to it.  If you can't get some exercise before school, then squeeze it in after school. And if not then because you are running kids around, then before dinner. Or after, or before bed.

The thing is, you can find 10 to 15 minutes--if you want to.  If you decide that YOU are important enough.

I often feel like my mental/emotional health is more important; that I need to email, to blog, to comment on things Latin, on things truly IMPORTANT to me.  And I played soccer today so I've gotten my exercise for the day.  And yesterday I rode the exercise bike while watching my youngest play a video game, which made him happy that I was spending time with him.  So that was a double bonus.

My Martial project will come together or not.  The students will make up quizzes and do quia's or not.  But I have to be in good enough health to be here next year as well as next week. So I need to miss a half day for a doc appt, and thus I will.  You have to take care of yourself.

I need to stop grading (sadly) and get down to lesson plans.  

The hardest part is this (for those of you who are new/future teachers): you want to be good; heck you want to be great, you want to be BRILLIANT!  But if you've got  a family, you have limitations on just how much you can do.  And that's ok.  I'm not brilliant. My classes aren't incredible, but the students are learning, or at least they are learning more than they did last year.  One day I'll be brilliant like BP or even MV. One day.  But today, I just have to do my best, stop beating myself up when things aren't how I think they should be, and remember to ENJOY WHAT I DO!

That's what the students pick up on the most.  Even my son, who is a reluctant 7th grade student of Latin, I think gets more out of my dramatic readings when I'm helping him--out of my enthusiasm--than anything else.  And when everyone else seems to be falling behind in his class, he's starting to be one of those who's keeping up.

And as long as I'm rambling, have you seen www.flashmybrain.com?  My husband got a subscription for my son because it allows him to print up flashcards. I want to play with it; I'm thinking of selling flashcards or figuring out a way to have student access so they can print their own this summer.  Not sure how. Need to look at it.  THEN, maybe I need to think about what all I would want to pile on each card... heh heh heh... But seriously; I do a rotten job, certainly by this time of year, with derivatives.  That's not the focus of my course.

And should we talk about notebooks and note taking?  Also things I don't do or do well.   I don't think they are critical, but sometimes I wonder....

ANYWAY....