Just When It Started Getting Better

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Today's classes went much better than yesterday's. The students seemed to enjoy today's lesson on circles. I introduced today's lesson with a Flocabulary video about using pi to calculate the circumference and area of a circle. Flocabulary makes educational rap videos on a variety of subjects. The song for this particular video was rather catchy. Tomorrow my students were going to take a test on Scale, Scale Factor, and Dimensions. Then I got the word that the CTE test some of the students were supposed to take today had been postponed until tomorrow. At first I didn't think this would interfere with my test. At the end of the day an email went out informing us our whole grade level will be spending the morning, until 10 at least. None of us were happy to learn of this. The same thing happened to my 7th grade team last Friday. It threw the whole day off. This time it will be the whole 7th grade in the gym. Won't that be fun, monitoring nearly 200 7th graders with nothing to do for 2+ hours. Hopefully the gym teachers will have some idea of what to do with them. The upshot is, my test is indefinitely postponed. My students will be happy about that. I'm not very happy about it since Friday is the last day of the quarter, it has already been ruled out as a day to give the test because of other activities taking place that day, and now the test, if I give it, will wind up being the first grade of the new quarter instead of the last grade of the current quarter. It is hard to believe this school year is nearly half over. I hope the second half goes more smoothly than the first half. Have you ever had your plans superseded for someone else's task without notice? Do you take such things in stride, or do you get all worked up over it?