i’ve been a bad blogger

I’ve been a very selfish blogger over the last few months. I’ve been religiously reading all of the blogs that I follow, but I have not been keeping up with my own blogging! I miss it!

With the school year slowly winding down (can you believe it’s already April!?), there’s still so much left to do! I can’t believe that there are only 3 months left in my first year as a teacher! I’ve still got many things to do, and events to look forward to! I’m preparing my primary and elementary choirs for their music festival next month. We’ll be celebrating “Music Monday” on May 4, 2009 – really excited about that! 

One thing about living in eastern Canada, though, is that we get a LOT of snow. Just last week we got dumped on with over 25 centimeters of snow! We thought that winter was over, but I guess winter just wanted one last blow! We’ve missed 11 school days due to snow and stormy weather this winter and spring, and more often than not, those storm days ended up being on my choir days! Due to my schedule (working alternating days between two schools), and the very active extra-curriculars in both schools, I cannot reschedule a missed choir practice. It’s so frustrating! The kids are so far behind on their music festival material. I think we will make it, and the kids are determined, but it will be interesting, that’s for sure!

The comforting fact is that every other school in my province has had the same thing happen to them. They may have a little more flexibility in terms of rescheduling rehearsals, but the time has still been missed. I may have to call a few after school rehearsals soon, but with sports already taking up most of that time, it’s hard to say if it would be a beneficial thing to do.