These are photos from what caused the snow day a month ago. The first two were taken at 6 am, when I found out school was cancelled. The last one was taken at 11, when I rolled out of bed that day.
This last one is of two of my students that had lunch in my room with me (best behavior for the previous week). Talk quickly went to that of doing the splits, so they decided that they would both do it and insisted that I take a picture of them.
Had a professional development day this Saturday. Went fairly well. I ended up generating an idea of something I want to try in my classroom. It will take me just about all week to implement it and I would not really be able to use it until next week (when real teaching resumes), but there is a chance I could start it on Thursday (we finish testing on Wednesday). My idea is to give all of my kids "Brain Books." Basically just folders with tracking sheets in them. Right now I'm trying to instill in them the notion that if they work hard, they can achieve success and get smarter. I spent most of the night trying to figure out what sort of information would be in it and what it would look like. I'm trying to get my students to be more independent. The hope is that they will be capable of looking at this folder, using it, and realizing what they need to do to accomplish the goals that are laid forth within. It will be more work for me to get it up and running and maintaining it, but I think my kids and I are capable of using them. I just do to want to introduce anything more to them for the first part of this week, especially if I am not completely sure what I want.
I've got an idea, but before I present it to them I need to know what I want out of it. I need to know what it will look like, when they will use it, how they will use it, where it will be located (wll they be able to take it home?) and other questions of the sort. I've not been this energized about a classroom idea in a long time.
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