Pressing On

Well, we're washed of exam week. I had precisely 1 of 54 students fail, and she improved her main exam grade well enough during recuperation that she didn't fail for the parcial (or "quarter"). It will be nice to have a parcial not bisected by Christmas holidays this time. Exam week ends neatly as Spring Break commences, so maybe I'll do my grading on the plane back to the States.

Anyway. Something curious happened this week: the majority of both classes outright failed the weekly spelling test. This has never happened. At present I'm going to chalk it up to a swirl of mostly new blends - ch, th, sh, and wh - and the fact that we don't have the new phonics books put together yet. No cross-subject reinforcement, alas.

And funny in its absurdity: the English director for the school (my most immediate boss) was supposed to be on hiatus from September through early November. Strangely, for circumstances beyond everyone's control, she is still in the United States. The latest prediction is that she'll return in late February.

I need to sleep. Now.