School closings

this semester during my field work i experience a lot of school closing due to our current hurricane sandy. this storm couldn't have come at a worst time. at this time period i was beginning to teach my students a new part of a continuing lesson. this not only for the teachers but for the students as well made it hard to teach, and reflect upon. after having such a gap between lessons (5 days) this made it difficult for the students to review and to hop back into to work mode. as a teacher we have to be prepared for this stuff to happen. this event has taught me to be flexible for the unknown, and to find ways of trying to recapture my students interest in the work that they have started, and to give them a means to finish it. yet i don't want them to just finish a piece of work i want them to also take what they have learned from it, and to use those tools of learning to help them in other endeavors.