Dec 24, 2013

A Time for Reflection, Relaxation, and Rejuvenation



As the year comes to a close and people gather with family and friends to celebrate the holidays, it's a perfect time to reflect on the past year.  It's also a time to develop those January resolutions (I don't call them New Years resolutions because they never last past January...)  But most importantly it is a time to relax and prepare for the 2nd half of the school year!  Those students will return ready to learn (or jump off the walls from their sugar high that hasn't gone away).  Think of a way to harness that energy and put their holiday hangover to good use during the month of January! (remember it's only two weeks till a 3-day weekend, 6 weeks until another week's vacation!)

“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” 
                   - Charles Dickens

“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.” 
                   - Yvonne Woon

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn” 
                  - Robert Frost

-MB