My next door teaching friend and I have the same Pinterest addiction. She teaches third grade and I teach kindergarten. We agreed that once school was over we were going to have to get together and work on our summer projects. Mainly, all the cool things we found on Pinterest but didn't have time to make for our classrooms during the school year. For some reason people think that all teachers do is sit around eating bon-bons all summer long while sitting at the pool. Totally not true. Why if you tried to eat your bon-bons at the pool you'd just have a melty chocolate-y mess. No, the teachers I know and work with use the summer to plan, read and create things for the upcoming school year. I just finished my 10th year of teaching and I still use my summer to make myself a better teacher and have a better year in the upcoming year than in the year that has just past.
To get started on our planning for next year my friend and I are getting together on Monday for a great, big ol' Pinterest craft party. We've invited a few other of our teaching friends to join us. I'm providing lunch and my friend is bring dessert (you got it, a new recipe). So here is my dilemma a few days out. Do I pick my favorite things I want to make and work on a bunch of unrelated topics. Do I focus on one subject area for my crafting and creating? What I really should do is work on my organizational abilities but what fun is that? So I need to buckle down and figure out what I want to work on instead of just pinning and pinning and pinning more great ideas.
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