End of the Term Positives

The end of the term is coming up on Friday and it's every teacher's nightmare. We have to get all of the grades put in before they are locked and finalized. Now in my class each Friday students have a 30 minute time block to work on any missing work, while those who completed their work on time get to watch a movie or play games. My TA has been awesome at helping me get grades in for missing work that's being turned in like nobody's business. However, with me being sick, she's had to teach and so I've taken the work home to grade and complete over the last few days. Well being sick doesn't lend itself to actually completing work you need to get done. So the old homework assignments have sat in my bag for a few days. Today I was able to knock out all of the worksheets that needed to be graded old and new. My students had a specialty this morning and then had to take a practice SAGE test so I had an hour of working time to get all the work graded and entered. I didn't succeed getting it all in this morning, but by the end of the work day, which is sadly right now I'm ready to head home with all assignments graded and only 1/3 of my students with missing work to turn in. Hallelujah!