Day in the Life

My life and daily routine has become so repetitive, I feel as though I am on auto-pilot. I make the same moves daily. I say the same things daily. I stop and ask did I say what I wanted to say, or was it yesterday that I said and am now repeating it. Did I say it to one class but not the other?

I wake at various times in the morning, depending on what needs to be accomplished that day. There are days when I wake up as early as 1 am. I leave between 5.50 am and 6.20 am. I need to be at work by 7 am, owing to early morning tutoring with my students. I tutor them from 7 am until 8 am. Planning should be from 8 – 8.55 am. Alas, I seldom have planning. Per the norm, there is always a meeting or some administrivia needing to be accomplished—usually during my planning period.

Moving on, I get my kids (6B) back at 9 am. From 9 until 11, I teach them Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies. However, as my students’ reading skills are so low, many of them go to Read 180 twice a day. From 10.30 – 11.10, they take tutoring with the reading interventionist. After that, I do something called Tier Time, where I teach other grade-level kids 4th grade reading and language arts, as they need remediation. At 11.30, we switch classes. I then teach my next set of kids (6A). From 11.30 to noon, I teach them Social Studies. When we get back from lunch and restroom break, I teach that reading and language arts until 2.10. At 2.10, we switch to Math Tier Time, where I teach 6A enrichment Math. At 2.40, we switch back to homeroom kids and start dismissal. At 3.05, we prepare for afternoon tutoring. I take my kids to the cafeteria for a snack and bring them back at 3.15 for after school tutoring until 5 pm. At 5 pm, I clock out, return to my room, try to straighten up, and prepare for a new day. I leave the building at 5.30 and reach home at 6.10 pm.

Once home, I eat dinner, put in some grades, grade papers, and go over my five different lesson plans for the next day, hoping to muddle through this year and not fall out and/or walk out due to sheer exhaustion.