This week is full of last days, and it’s all about survival. The kids are crazy and the to-do list grows by the second so it’s going to be all uphill to Friday.
Teaching:
We spent the morning writing our Summer Bucket Lists. This is an activity I have done each season this year and I really want to keep it up. It’s neat to see how much the students can come up with. I wrote my own too.
Walk on the beach
Read on my patio
Go trail running
Visit my parents
Go on a road trip
Go to Sechelt
Make ice cream
Go to Canada Day celebrations
Stay in bed drinking tea
Bake on rainy days
Can fruit
Pick berries
Go to Seattle
Visit my brother
Watch Gus play football
Workout lots
Have a picnic
Go on a hike
Meet friends for fun stuff
Walk along Main Street
Explore Commercial Drive
Go on a bike ride
Use my herbs
Go for ice cream
Knit 2 sweaters
Visit new yarn and book stores
Go to a farmers market
Try a new restaurant
Help on my parent’s house
Play with Anna’s kids at the park
See as many friends as possible
Work on my cross stitch
Make my Christmas presents
Watch movies
Check out a new library
Go shopping
With 62 days, hopefully this list will make my blog interesting this summer:)
Lunch was taken up with an interminable meeting where absolutely nothing was decided or changed:(
We also got the scrapbooks finished and tried to get all our torn Canadian flags done- not quite, but close.
After school I got all the kids hallway writing put into books for them to take home tomorrow. After each event this year we have written about it and now I have taken all the pages and made them into books for the kids to take home. It’s great to see how far the children have grown in their writing.
This is from last year, but they look exactly the same this year. I guess I am obsessed with yellow🤣
Exercise:
After a nap I managed to get my butt out the door for a run. I wanted to go longer, but one of my students got me with dairy today so I didn’t last very long. I got 3.9km done towards my goal and at the end I managed to hit a 6:15/km. Not sure how, but I’ll take it! 
Knitting:
This evening I have finally sat down to work on the cardigan some more and now have the left front up to the arm decreases. I don’t think I’ll have this done by July 1st, but hopefully by the first week of the holiday.
Movies:
As I’ve been knitting away, I watched Lucky In Love. It was a cute movie, but it seemed like the whole thing was a dream. I kept expecting the female lead to wake up and find out it was all a dream! Actually the female lead so reminds me of my server at the pub on Tuesday nights.
Well I’m off to bed so I can deal with tomorrow.
Have fun!
AJ
sounds like a good list for your summer break. that last week of school always feels like a crazy marathon of trying to get things done and stay sane. But, the end is in sight and that is a good thing.
Yes I just keep thinking about Friday at 3:)
Just a few more days now! Hopefully this week will fly by for you!
I’m hoping so!
That’s a great idea–the summer bucket list. I had better make mine before the summer goes away!
Lol I only do it for my holidays. I started just to do a sample for my students but have really liked having ideas
Excellent photo of the kids book 😉
Heehee I knew you would like that one!
We need to get together before you go!
Great list, and hang in there, only a few more days to go!
This week is taking forever!!
I love this summer bucket list!! What is Sechelt though? Ive never heard of it!
It’s a small city on our coast:) I went last summer too
Oh okay! Cool:)
That sounds like a great list I may have to sit down and work my own out 😊
I just did it as an example for the kids, but it turned out well:)
How lovely of you to make those books! I’m impressed when teachers do that and it’s a lovely thing to have. Not a feature of my schooldays!!
Mine either! I use it for assessment all year so the book is just a happy by-product, but don’t tell the parents!🤣
Wonderful!
That’s a great bucket list! I look forward to reading about your summer adventures!
Thank you!
That’s an impressive list AJ – I hope you get through it!
I’ll be happy to get even a few things off it!
Yes because it was an ambitious list!
It is, but I need lots of ideas as sometimes I don’t feel like doing certain things:)
I know that feeling – we have rain again this morning and stormy wether on the horizon. I have a dentist appointment this morning, usually just a nice 3-mile walk. My car is in the shop due to the spring accident last Saturday (garage spring came off the cable and ricocheted into the back portion of the car, narrowly missing the tail light).
Oh a 3 mile rainy walk just isn’t the same as a nice day 3 mile walk. I hope your car is fixed up quickly!
It stopped drizzling as I was ready to go thankfully, but I had to lug my umbrella and coat along as I didn’t trust it would not rain after looking at the sky. Thank you and I hate to say it, but the car still is not done – no phonecall from them. If it doesn’t get done by 6:00 tomorrow, no car for the weekend and now they say Sunday will be nice, so I will be hitting my everyday spot. I see Summer slipping away due to bad weather and no real joyous Spring like we often get when you walk with no coat or hat and feel the sun in your face – I feel cheated, I really do!
Oh it’s horrible when you don’t get those happy, blissful walks in the sunshine that make up for the long dreary, cold winter!
I am pretty annoyed but we now have no rain all weekend, contrary to the earlier in the week weather report. But I mangled up my finger yesterday in the new garage door – going to do a short post to whine about it and have to work today as I couldn’t type yesterday – icing my finger. (No words!)
Ugh take care of that finger!!!
I forgot to give you the link – yes, like you said, thinking about my finger is messing up my concentration too. I won’t do that again – believe me! I don’t think it is broken just horribly swollen and bruised.
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2019/06/29/x-marks-the-spot/
Awww:(
I absolutely loved reading this summer bucket list!! I would love to go to Seattle too! Definitely up there on my own bucket list too.
So cool to see the children grow and improve – I bet that’s really rewarding as their teacher! ❤
Thanks for sharing, AJ!
It is the best feeling as a teacher- realizing you have taught something. Most days you definitely doubt that🤣
Yup the plan is made so I am going to Seattle in August:)
Oh that sounds so fun!!
We definitely have our fun moments:)
AJ you are a whirlwind of energy and I both admire and envy that. Don’t you love a good list! Every year to 15 months I make a Best Year Yet list, and it is formidable! And then when the time period is up I need to carry over some of the things on that list to the next list. Sometimes priorities change and I find that maybe an item on the list is no longer list worthy, but it is a wonderful exercise to help progress.
Exactly! I don’t think too much of the list and often have to carry things over too, but it at least gets me to be mindful of goals and what I want to prioritize at that time
Oh and Seattle ROCKS! What a beautiful and fun city.
I can’t wait to explore it with my friends!