The days are long and the years are short

Only 3 more hours to go! The 2011-2012 school year (3rd grade for Emily) will end tomorrow with a half-day. So much has been happening.

I intend never to be on quite as many PTA committees ever again. Some days (weeks), it seemed like I was in the school all day, every day.

I am turning over the foreign language committee to someone else. It will be advertised many many times probably before someone picks it up. But, as long as someone picks it up early in the school year, it will still work out. Emily is unlikely to do Spanish next year (grade 4) and it seems she will have a built-in conflict in grade 5.

Emily is being advanced far and fast in math, and she is enjoying it a huge amount. Fourth grade, she will be taking Math 6 with a group of 5th graders. In fifth grade, she will go over to the local middle school for math before the day begins at her elementary school (this would conflict with Spanish if it continues to be offered at the same time at the elementary school).

Emily and I are going to do a lot of Spanish work over the summer.

Well, a clam that is eating cupcakes, that is.

Yum, yum.

Things seem to be going well for Emily at school. She's got a few friends for when the going gets tough with her best friend. She's mostly enjoying her morning Spanish class, even though it is hard to wake up that early.

I've been working a lot lately and therefore getting paid a lot lately. Plus the work keeps me on my toes, thinking either about the substance of what I am teaching or about the method of getting the information across.