> This has the makings of another awful winter...I'm
 > depressed already just thinking about it (g).  Think my
 > lesson program will probably be hit or miss all winter ...grrr.
 
Okay, Meg, time to be creative!  What about indoor lesson plans?  There must 
be tons of stuff you can teach the kids about horsekeeping 
-- tack cleaning, mucking out, identifying tack, horse clothes, etc. 
 And grooming!
 
After all, you don't want to give the kids the idea that if the weather is 
bad, you just leave the horse in the toybox and go play with something else.  
The horses have to be cared for no matter what, so let them have a taste of 
it.
 
Sure, take time off for the holidays, or if you (or they) need a break, but 
if you *WANT* to do a lesson, then do it.
 
Do what my high school math teacher did.  He always had multiple topics 
going.  We never knew what we were going to study from one day to the next, 
though we knew it was likely to be one of about five or six topics.  It was 
weird but it worked.  It's not unlike a movie shooting schedule, where there 
could be plans to shoot five or six different scenes or sets of scenes 
altogether, depending on what the weather is like that day.
 
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