Planned

Ready to start

• Schedule reading time into the day, 1 hour a day total, 45 minutes of reading and 15 minutes of writing for now.
• Create prompts for the reading journal to help ideas flow.
  • what questions did it raise?
  • What does it remind you of (other reading, or anything else)?
  • What ideas did you have as a result?
  • Can you elaborate on a previous journal now? If so, do it.
  • Capture the best quote from today's reading
• Make the script for synchronizing the kids' writing submissions with my grading folder. It needs to:
  1. pull their submissions to my machine
  2. run pandoc on them to make something I can grade and mark up
  3. send my graded copies back to them
  4. Prompt me to enter a score on the grading page for that assignment.
  5. Add the score to the frontmatter for their submission, with a link to the comments.

In progress

• Define a reading-journal directory format for all of us to use.
• Come up with a school-plan

Complete

Complete

• #teacher Decide on what content I want to use from commonlit.org for literature for both kids 2025-02-14
• Physics - Have kids measure spring constant for different springs.
• Physics - make an experiment for springs, show Hooke's law and talk about periodic oscillation.
• equations-and-inequalities - gr7 needs to practice order of operations with variable expressions. Do problems from section 5.3.
• Physics - outline remainder of textbook with detailed headings and a list of terminology for flashcards
• Physics - introduce motion diagrams (Five easy lessons p. 77
• Math - catch up on grading
  geometry-gr10
• Robotics - assign task to write most basic sensor and servo loop for bots, where they just implement the "drive toward the sensor that sees the line" algorithm.
• #teacher Language: Schedule the How to write an essay playlist into our curriculum. 2025-01-30
• #teacher prealgebra-mixed-numbers Make a lesson for helping gr7 do better at mixed number order of operations. 2025-01-06
• Outline the computer science fat notebook and get it scheduled into a class
• Teach gr7 Interval notation for section 5.5.
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for history
• Science - Find a crash course or other similar source for the General Science background. Maybe IXL has some useful stuff to sprinkle in.
• Design and build a photogate for physics. Dual gate for velocity measure, bonus for speed readout display.
• Make a weekly math quiz using odd-number problems from review sections for each chapter.
• Make a weekly quiz for physics that draws from problems in past assignments.
• Get the kids started on AoPS Alcumus practice
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for geometry
• Make a tool to scan my vault for assignment files and project stuff so that it can be bundled up and sent to the kids automatically. Either that, or set up a way to publish it on our school site.
• Look at what desmos has to offer for the kids
• #hw (robotics) (gr7) Design the IR sensor mounts for your chassis 2024-12-11
• #hw (robotics) Hook up the IR sensor to the arduino and use your IRSensor class to detect whether you're on a line and output the answer twice per second to the serial port. 2024-12-11
• Literature - Assign outline and rough draft for Extreme Ownership. Report needs to be an executive summary style of paper explaining the method clearly and concisely.
• Physics - make a physics-motion-map mind map for understanding the properties of motion.
• Assign the IRSensor test project
• Robotics - Review and print gr7's IR sensor mounts
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for computer science
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for language
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for engineering
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for prealgebra
• Combine CAD, Robotics and electronics into a single project-based Engineering course
• Get the Physics online classroom integrated into the physics schedule
• Physics - Identify which exercises and problems go with which chapter sections and note them in the outline.
• Create a lesson plan template, folder, and modal form for computer physics
• Make a "make me a quiz" prompt for notebook-lm that I can use to test chapters and also build a cumulative review program
• Outline the English language arts notebook and schedule it into a class.
• Come up with some effective prompts for notebook-lm to help with history study. I want it to simlate AP MCQs, and ideally it would also give some short-answer open-ended questions. The kids should use it to study, questioning its results and finding any mistakes or elaborations.
• Make a weekly grammar quiz to refresh them on parts of speech, comma usage, quotation usage, and other common mistakes. (the fat notebook does this)
• General - update school-dashboard and school-day-fall-2024 for spring semester. Give larger blocks of time for engineering, and less for math (it's mostly homework these days). History discussion needs to be increased, and we need some in-class grammar review.
• Robotics - help gr10 do final assembly of her bot. Need to drill out the screw holes a bit and get replacement screws in

Maybe in the future...

• Work the AI at ck12.org into my set of resources
• Coding - Outline and schedule stuff from Think Like a programmer