Mental Lists

A teacher's work is never ending. As my sister said to me today "don't you have grading or something to do?" Of course...I just have so much to do I am putting it all off (and Christmas shopping online), I am not a list maker, that is my mom through and through, I have a mental list of all the stuff I have to get done for work, so here is a day in my life as a teacher.

• Finish giving the DIBELS test
• Finish giving the DCA's to the students who missed last week
• Grade the DCA's
• Fill in the bubble sheets for the DCA's
• Hand in the bubble sheets for the DCA's
• Grade the writing assessment I gave like a month ago
• Get caught up in Math
• Have the students make their Christmas gifts for their parents
• Figure out what to make for the staff party on Friday
• Finish figuring out what we are going to do for our skit at the staff party on Friday
• Plan for, write out the plans and make all the copies for my sub on Thursday morning and Monday
• Plan for after-school tutoring next week
• Touch base with parents about several student concerns
• Make powerpoints for our reading vocabulary for next week
• Clean off my desk
• Find a place to put my new file folder games I made
• Have parent volunteers laminate and cut out materials for folder games
• Make folder games for math centers
• Make new centers for up until Christmas Break
• Copy and assemble take home books for this week's reading series
• Get caught up on my grading for math and reading assessments
  
• Copy and assemble homework packets for over Christmas break
• and the list goes on...

I need my hours to be lengthened, a little more light in my day.