Thursday, April 12th

Academically? Easy day.
Behaviorally? Could have gone better.

Squirrelly kids today, I tell ya. Must be something in the water. Or the rain - I'm convinced the rain just makes living things a little wacky. Anyway, today was a pretty laid back day; but for some reason behavior failed to be in accordance with that. Owen got sent to the back of the room multiple times, two Room 4 students lost their recess because of poor behavior in their ELD class, and Drew and Nicholas both lost recess time for poor behavior with me during center rotation.

This morning we went through normal morning routine - the letter of the week is X and we have started a science unit on plants. After morning routine, the kids got to get out the Sparkies (hand held devices for taking digital quizzes) and practice some number and word recognition on the Promethean Board. Poor Mrs. Brasler, she is trying really hard to get up-to-date on all the technical innovations, but everything keeps giving her trouble. She's getting there though! The kids got scolded during this time for not taking it seriously. All it took was the threat of never doing Sparkies again to get them to get more serious and focused on the activity.

Today was Mrs. Magdalena's birthday! She is one of the yard duties, and she teaches the kids PE every week. She is a really sweet lady and Mrs. Brasler made a giant card for her that all of the students got to sign their names on. When she came out for recess they were all SO excited to tell her happy birthday; you could tell it really meant a lot to her. And I can relate...those were my favorite birthday wishes of the whole day when I was at Room 3 for my birthday.

During centers, we played High Frequency Word Bingo! Very fun and a good way for them to practice recognizing words that they can't sound out. It didn't require a whole lot of brain power for me either, which was a nice break after this week....

In a couple weeks, I get to go on my first ever kindergarten field trip! We'll be learning about different jobs in our community, so we are walking (yes, all 28 5-6 year olds are going to successfully walk together) down the street to the Albertson's. My first "chaperone" experience! I'm probably more excited for it than they are. Maybe I'll do some grocery shopping while I'm there...just kidding! :)

Still counting down the days until Room 3 transforms into a bunch of 1st graders! After today, they have just 34 more school days...