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Teacher parents, how do you make it work with only two personal days?

This is my first year with a teaching contract and it's hitting me that there's probably no way I can get to several pretty significant events for my kids. I'll probably have to choose 2 out of my oldest son's grade 6 farewell, any of my daughter's dance competitions where she isn't a weekend day, and Christmas Concert for all my kids (their school offers 2 performances but both are during the day), plus sometimes my oldest has hockey tournaments that start on Fridays. After years staying home, it's kind of killing me to realize there isn't a way to be there. I knew I wouldn't get to everything anymore but I really don't even know how to make it work.

Wondering if I may need to switch to subbing permanently (or at least until they're out of elementary) because I don't know that the trade off is worth it to me. How do other teacher parents find it?

Hi everyone! I'm a new teacher hired to teach grade 6 in the fall. I was looking at their school supply list (created before I was hired) and I'm not sure how I'm going to have the students organize their work with the supplies their families are expecting to purchase. I will be teaching math, science, ELA, social, religion, and art plus they will have French with another teacher working off the same supply list. There is only one 1 inch binder, 2 duotangs, and 2 notebooks listed.

Ideas for how I can organize the different subjects? I don't know what storage I will have in my classroom for sure either, I've subbed at the school but I don't know what belonged to the school and what to the individual teachers. Usually I've seen either different coloured duotangs for each class or bigger binders so I'm a little lost.

Does the use of Google classroom reduce paper that much for older grades? I've subbed older grades but my practicums were all earlier elementary so I'm also wondering if it's not as much an issue as I'm thinking since there isn't as much paper.