Teaching is Full of Surprises!

Sunday:
After returning from a relaxing Fall Break trip, I stay up into wee hours of the morning entering grades for first quarter report cards that are due the following day.

Monday:
Surprise! The instructions on how to enter assignments into the grade book software were not given correctly. All grades are entered wrong and must be fixed (aka redo) by midnight!
Surprise! We're giving first quarter cumulative benchmark assessments this week!!
Surprise! Your below-level third graders (aka 80%) will likely freak out when they see the length of the passages which they are expected to read!

Tuesday:
Surprise! The scoring software is not compatible! Teachers will be hand-scoring all benchmark tests! As well as doing our own test item analysis!
Surprise! Student has an emotional breakdown!
Surprise! You have to teach specials during your plan time because there is a sub and, although nice, she's a total goon and your class is about to overtake her!
Surprise! Only 5 show up for Open House!

Wednesday:
Surprise! The sub for Ms. R didn't show up! Her class is being split between the other third grade teachers!
Surprise! Third grade is switching to a different, older, supposedly better reading curriculum! We don't have any complete sets, but hey, resourcefulness is what we're good at! Right?


Best of all: There are still two full school days left in this week for even more surprises! YAY!!