Okay, I think I will stop counting the days in the titles of my posts. Sounds too much like I'm keeping a journal on a desert isle. Also, it's somewhat depressing to think there's 177 more until summer! Actually if we can keep rolling like we have this first week, we'll be sad when summer comes!
Today I went up to visit Pinecrest School and check in with their opening. It was great to see Ms. Terry's 6th, 7th and 8th graders in doing "Reading Buddies" with Mrs. Knowles (formerly Ms. Hebert!) Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders. The older kids get a lot out of the experience of reading to their younger buddies, and it really helps build bonds across the school. It was great to see the interactions among the different ages, with some of the kindergartners leaning against the older students as they read to them.
Mr. Brown had his fourth graders working away on a language arts lesson. Since all of these students were third graders with Mr. Brown last year, they didn't have to spend too much time getting back into the swing of things. They've just jumped right in and are already moving through the new 4th grade material.
I then came back down the hill and held our behavior expectation assembly with our kindergarten classes. I forgot how quickly they hit their saturation point. Mental note... Next year shorten my presentation to Kindergartners to about one and a half minutes. Maybe I need to juggle flaming bowling balls to hold their attention. In reality, they are doing very well given it is only their 3rd day here.
In the afternoon we held our upper grade assembly. I covered the general behavior expectations with the students. Dress code and cell phones took up the majority of that discussion. After my part, the new student council held some spirit games to kick the year off. The games were fun, but I believe the student council learned a few things about crowd control... at least I hope they learned!
Have a great weekend everyone! Suddenly, I remember why Fridays are so highly revered!
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