A little late, but it's still Thursday in California!

I didn't do much today. Woke up, went to work. Came home for 2 hours, went back to work. Luckily we didn't have any children tonight. That's because it was the first night we've been open on friday nights this season.

Let me back up. I work in the drop-in childcare room at the YMCA in town (actually at both cuz we have 2). We aren't open friday nights normally, but we add that extra time December through February because it is cold out and it's nice to have a place to go on friday nights.

So tonight was the first friday night we were open and no one ever remembers that we're open.

I'm ok with that.

I got a lot of homework done. Well, first of all I finished addressing and writing all of my christmas cards. Then I started work on my homework.

I am currently writing a 6 week lesson plan discussing the books "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian" by Alexie Sherman. I've never written a unit plan before and I'm really excited about this pairing of books. They both chronicle the 9th grade year of a student, one boy and one girl. They each have their own problems they are trying to work through but in the end, they learn to overcome their circumstances. I'm just really excited to get to work with these books with students. I feel like they can learn so much. And they're good books too!

So I guess that's what I did today. I got excited about teaching.