So today is the last day before fall break and it honestly felt that way for sure. The kids were all so in their own little worlds and anxious. It definitely didn’t help that it was pajama day for spirit week either… It was just a transitional day and the kids could feel it. We started the day off heading down to our kindergarten buddies room to make “thank you” cards for all of the people who help us out in the school. It was honestly like a craft-glitter bomb went off in that room at about 8:20am. The kindergarteners didn’t really understand what they were doing and the 5th graders were learning about classroom management. When we started actually giving the cards to the people they were made for, it was really sweet. The kids were so proud of their work and loved the positive attention they received. From there we transitioned into expedition in the fainted attempt to finish our letters. It honestly was SO painful. Having not really drilled into our kids the importance of the writing process they really struggled with being forced into using it. So basically I learned (thanks in part to seminar yesterday too) it is essential to start the school year emphasizing the revision/editing stage so that when the expectation is to use the conventions of writing in the correct way the kids know what to do. It was so hard having to go over the importance of using periods in the correct way or capitalizing the first word in a sentence. Or Scott’s biggest pet peeve of indenting at the beginning of the letter. And now, reflecting on the whole day, I guess it was kind of unfair of us to be so annoyed (granted the kids also were so unmotivated and unwilling to work hard) with them since they didn’t know the expectations. Last lesson of the first quarter is to set expectations early so that everyone is on the same page. Just seems easiest. YAY FALL BREAKKKKKKKK
Check back in a week when I resume real life… until then, sleeping in, reading and catching up on all my favorite TVs shows….oh and writing a few papers will be stuck in there I suppose ☺
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