4 More Days
Jun. 1st, 2018 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serafina20There are four more days left of this school year and I am… hanging in there the best I can. This week was interesting because we did all the traditional last week of school activities. Tuesday, we the school talent show, which took an hour and a half. Then, we had to go back to class and teach. Which was hard. Hard for me and hard for the students. Thursday was the final awards ceremony which was also well over an hour. And then today we had the school carnival which is an hour of playing games outside before heading back in and having to maintain some semblance of normalcy.
It’s been rough. If my motivation to be there is low, I know the kids are worse. All I can think of is Disney World and how I am SO CLOSE to getting to go. But I have to do teacher things like report cards and cleaning my room. Luckily, I am done with report cards, I’ve made all the copies I need for next week, and my room is decent. There’s still some stuff that needs to come down, but that’s mostly just student work and anchor charts. Student work will start coming down next week and anchor charts will come down Wednesday or Thursday (the last day!!).
Today, the last hour of school, we did painting. I broke out the water colors and let them do whatever they wanted (provided it was school appropriate). Once again, some of the kids were done in fifteen minutes while others took the whole time. Luckily, I got some magnetic shapes from Toys R Us over the weekend, so the students who were done could do some engineering. I was impressed with the results:
Link to post with pictures
So, next week, we’re making our Important Book, which is a class book I make every year where every kid gets to write what’s important about them, as well as their favorite things. We’ll do some math mystery pages where we try to solve where… some sort of gremlins hid something? I don’t remember. But it’s fun. And I’m going to make them read the last story in the reading anthology, learn some vocabulary and high frequency words, and maybe do some writing. We’ll get through this.
Four more days. Also, 24 days.
It’s been rough. If my motivation to be there is low, I know the kids are worse. All I can think of is Disney World and how I am SO CLOSE to getting to go. But I have to do teacher things like report cards and cleaning my room. Luckily, I am done with report cards, I’ve made all the copies I need for next week, and my room is decent. There’s still some stuff that needs to come down, but that’s mostly just student work and anchor charts. Student work will start coming down next week and anchor charts will come down Wednesday or Thursday (the last day!!).
Today, the last hour of school, we did painting. I broke out the water colors and let them do whatever they wanted (provided it was school appropriate). Once again, some of the kids were done in fifteen minutes while others took the whole time. Luckily, I got some magnetic shapes from Toys R Us over the weekend, so the students who were done could do some engineering. I was impressed with the results:
Link to post with pictures
So, next week, we’re making our Important Book, which is a class book I make every year where every kid gets to write what’s important about them, as well as their favorite things. We’ll do some math mystery pages where we try to solve where… some sort of gremlins hid something? I don’t remember. But it’s fun. And I’m going to make them read the last story in the reading anthology, learn some vocabulary and high frequency words, and maybe do some writing. We’ll get through this.
Four more days. Also, 24 days.
