Such a long week. It started out with a trip to the dentist that culminated with a pulled wisdom tooth. The rest of the week I attended a teacher's workshop every day. This meant that I had to write substitute plans and go in to my classroom to check on things every afternoon after I got out of the workshop. Ironically, not teaching is infinitely more labor intensive than teaching.
Next Friday, the other 4th grade teacher and I will board a yellow school bus and take our classes up to Yosemite for the day. Forty-two nine and ten year olds, several dozen parent chaperones and us. Escalon, where I teach is only about 60 miles from Yosemite, yet the majority of people going on the trip have never been there. After weeks of unseasonably hot weather, a cold front is fast approaching and we should have rain by midweek. The children are all praying for snow. I resolutely view anything that happens as part of the adventure.
Tomorrow Bruce and I will leave early to take a reconnaissance trip up there to check everything out. I'm looking forward to going -- it's been many years since I saw autumn in Yosemite.
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