Emily's Goal

My goal this year is to revise my lessons to more closely follow the timeframe of the curriculum maps and provide clearer expectations for my students. So far I've worked towards this by comparing my 4th and 5th grade lessons from last year with the curriculum map. Then I created a "skeleton" outline of the lessons for the year, mostly focusing on making lessons the correct length to match the timeframe in the maps. This took FOREVER. But it made it very clear to me that for those 2 grades I do not have time to mess around and let an art project run on for a million days. I have to stick to the outline I made in order to fit everything in that the curriculum maps require. I cannot go over by even a day for most of the projects.
I haven't done this with my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade yet. I did not have as much trouble getting everything done last year for those grades. I think my goal for September will be to make an outline for the 3rd grade lessons.

Question: How important is it in your classes that you stick to the timeframe of the curriculum maps and fit everything in before the end of the year?

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Art Rules!

Overwhelming!

I find all of this digital/online technology so overwhelming, yet interesting. Part of me really wants to learn more about it, and part of me says "too much, too little time".

Question: In the next month, what do you hope to have accomplished in terms of using new technology?

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Does this work? Hope so!