Captain’s Log.
Winter, Day 1,578,325.
The crew is restless, complaining of too much work and too little sun. Energy levels are much higher than output and difficult to contain in such tight quarters. Mutiny seems inevitable. And the captain? Teaching in winter means the captain is just plain tired.
Schooling in winter is hard, and I suspect if you kept a captain’s log of what was going on with your students, many of your entries right now would look just like the above. Especially in this year in which many of our usual options for dealing with the wiggles and the bad moods aren’t available.
So I’m just here to give you a couple of ideas–and a LOT of encouragement!– to help you through. Because this winter will not last forever, even if it seems like it already has!
