school

we finished our first week of school last week and it was very successful! i set what i felt were ambitious but realistic goals for the week and came in almost completely on target. second week, though, we had two days out because of illness. (one for teacher, one for student) so since i have a flex day built into our schedule (in otherwords we do school 4 days a week, leaving that fifth day for field trips, projects, catch up, or long weekends, whatever needs be) we are only one work day behind, plus we didn't do a field trip i wanted. so, since this is my first time being a scheduler, i dont know what i am supposed to do. moving that one day's work into next week means that my next week schedule gets bumped. do i rewrite the schedule? do i have school 5 days next week (and consequently push off my field trip again?) those seem to me to be the only choices. how do actual schedulers deal with disruptions?

i have another disruption on my mind, a possible last minute/emergency trip out of town. i wasn't planning to take a vacation only 2 weeks into the year. i did plan plenty of vacation time during the year, so i can just take one of those weeks. or i could take the work with us. hmmm....