Feet Up and Brain Off

I love vacation.
I love that teaching at a public school involves several mandatory vacations. I look at my friends who are still in corporate america and they're limited to 2 or 3 weeks a year, maybe 4 if they're lucky. And no snow days either!

Ah, but the trade-off, the hours, the students, the planning, the grading. We need those weeks off. This one is especially nice, some time with the kids, some time with Julie, who hates that she's not mentioned in the blog, so there you go, you're in.
But the brain is off, the bag full of grading is by the door where it was dropped when the vacation started. The 1st day back is penciled together in my head, it'll work. But I just don't need to make more work for myself right now.

But the flip of this is that the students have been away from work for a week, and they're going to have to switch gears and come back to work, that's part of my light planning for Monday, there's no sense in overplanning for overtired students. I'll save it for Tuesday.
The big kick for my students is that they have 2 weeks left until the end of the term, and FINALS! Then I'm done with Bio and go back to Earth Science, stay tuned!