Difficulties of Final's week

This past week has been tough. I am taking classes while I am teaching, and this was finals week. I was staying up late at nights and getting up early. This made it difficult for me to try to do both. I gave my students long assignments that don't require much thinking so they would keep busy, and not have a lot of questions. Everyone did the assignments and the assignments were related to the curriculum, but I felt bad for the students, on my last day of finals I gave the students a 3 page report to be typed, so they could gain more practice with writing reports. I was very tired this day and didn't have very much energy the week had worn on me. I told the class that if they all worked hard on this assignment I would give them a "fun" day the next day on Friday. They were all skeptical if my definition of "fun" matched their definition. I promised they would like it. Everyone worked hard and stayed on task. At the end of class I told everyone to save the assignment and not print it, I gave everyone that was in class that day full credit for the assignment no matter how far they were because they all stayed on task and worked the entire period. (This went for all of my classes)I was amazed at how motivated the students were even when they didn't know what the "fun" was going to be. This was a tough week for me but my students were kind and stayed on task.