Surviving a Season of Sacrifice
I was listening to the Happier podcast by Gretchen Rubin and she was talking about those strategies that we employ when we recognize that we are about to enter a
Season of Sacrifice'. That's the time when we know we are going to have to live through a period of time when we can't have things the way we like them; will have to identify those things in our life that won't be up to our usual standards; things we will have to deliberately step away from and wait to come back to doing.
I was thinking about this in relationship to our work in the coming 8 weeks. Perhaps if we label it as our 'Season of Sacrifice' it will help when everything feels chaotic, knowing that we will get back to a less hectic time and this stress will fade into memory.
I know I'm going to look at my life - both personal and professional - and be intentional about identifying some things that are just going to have to wait on me, until time becomes more plentiful. It will - I know that from experience. I know that if I don't make these 'sacrifices' that I will just feel overwhelmed, frustrated and perplexed about why the things that normally bring me great joy just feel stressful! I'm doing too much.
What might you put on hold, knowing that it will just be for the duration of this 'Season of Sacrifice'?
Season of Sacrifice'. That's the time when we know we are going to have to live through a period of time when we can't have things the way we like them; will have to identify those things in our life that won't be up to our usual standards; things we will have to deliberately step away from and wait to come back to doing.
I was thinking about this in relationship to our work in the coming 8 weeks. Perhaps if we label it as our 'Season of Sacrifice' it will help when everything feels chaotic, knowing that we will get back to a less hectic time and this stress will fade into memory.
I know I'm going to look at my life - both personal and professional - and be intentional about identifying some things that are just going to have to wait on me, until time becomes more plentiful. It will - I know that from experience. I know that if I don't make these 'sacrifices' that I will just feel overwhelmed, frustrated and perplexed about why the things that normally bring me great joy just feel stressful! I'm doing too much.
What might you put on hold, knowing that it will just be for the duration of this 'Season of Sacrifice'?
Bravo!
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| Martha - takin' it easy! Uh, yeah right! Thanks Martha, for your coordination of the state testing and making it feel like such a breeze! |
Douglas County School District Art Show
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| Here's the lady who makes it happen for our kids! Three of our kids placed! Thank you Karen for supporting Pam with the set up! |
Brave Dance
Consider in your daily practice of our school wide dance, to practice WITHOUT watching Josh. Our goal is to get to a place where we don't need to watch him to know the dance!
Who wants to be on the Leadership team next year?
Please let me know if you are interested!
Leadership Team notes from our brief meeting last week:
* Remember to schedule End of Year Writing Assessment (what a celebration it will be !)
A member from the Leadership Team who is on your writing team will coordinate with you to discuss:
* Do we want to have a conversation and share student work from end of the year writing assessment?
Assessments that need to be passed along to the next teacher:
* Scored rubric and student writing of end of the year writing assessment
* DRA/QRI - the actual assessment, not just the level
* End of year math assessment
Calendar:
April 16 - 20:
State Testing in the A.M.
Monday:
Tuesday:
MTSS:
SAC 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday:
PD:
Expedition Share (examples, celebration, limitations, sample products)
Thursday:Friday: No School
April 23 - 27:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
PD:
CITE 6/ALP’s/READ ACT *Documentation/Compliance Day*
Friday:
Wednesday schedule following April 25th:
May 2nd: 'Challenge Day' vision setting
Renaissance Activities (tent set up/pack up, stuff a sleeping bag, put on gear, gear check, team building, ground clean up, leave no trace (principles and projects)
Service project ideas
Each crew has a different service
- In addition - discuss back to school carnival teacher option rather than dunk tank
May 9th: Conferences/EPR
May 16th: Conferences/EPR
May 23rd: 3rd Grade Showcase Celebrations
May 30th: 6th Grade Showcase Celebrations
June 6th: (last day school) & End of Year Reflection/Party
Have a great week!
Deborah
