February...where has the time gone?

Can you believe it is the middle of February?  I sat down with a fellow teacher to plan our next unit and couldn't believe I am planned out to April.  This school year has flown by! I feel like I have joined that group of older adults--the early morning coffee clubbers who sat in the diner near my grandparent's house and complained about prices of everything and the weather.  I'm the one now saying where has the time gone?


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