Friday

Friday was a wonderful day, as usual. However, I am starting to realize that it is pretty hard to have a bad day when you wake up every morning and make a conscious choice to have a great day. I have been extremely happy this semester with my life. I am finding that it is pretty hard to complain when life is so great. I am learning a lot from great instructors, books, and my own experiences every day. I just finished a book called Educating Esme that I would highly recommend to anyone that wants to become a teacher or already it one. Although, I must give a warning that there is some language in it that is less than classroom appropriate and the overall book is not all that PC. However, because it is not PC and it is the honest and blunt truth, this book is a great entertaining and refreshing read. In other news, Friday the children learned how to make a twig book for writing workshop. I took four pieces of printer paper, folded them in half and put two holes through the binding. The students took yard and threaded it through the holes, looped it around their twig (that they found out in the habitat), and tied a knot. The students wrote stories or drew pictures in their books. We did a little house keeping of cleaning out our flat spaces and organizing our work into our designated folders before beginning science. For science the students were engaged in a lesson called the “Main Attraction” in which they partnered up, placed drops of water on a piece of wax paper, and pulled the droplets together and through a maze using toothpicks. This was great fun and also pretty messy because the children could not help but make really big drops that soaked through the wax paper. The day ended with a staff meeting which is always so fun because Denise (the principal) always makes meeting positive by handing out flowers, recognizing teachers, and pointing out what everyone is doing that is great.