Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Sunshine Superman

Well, the kiddos are outside at recess right now before lunch, but I have to say that "chaotic" would pretty well describe our day thus far. No one's fault in particular, but it was a near-perfect storm this morning, and I am proud to say that your kids handled it wonderfully. Smooth sailing for all of them! As we sat outside the door of the community room, just outside the cafeteria, while kids were walking in and out to do a reading test with the aids, I said, "Isn't this just like life?" Sometimes all you can do is throw up your hands and laugh.

Just because ISTEP is over (HALLELUJAH, BABY!), that doesn't mean testing is over. We're in the midst of doing lots of end-the-year check-ups, as with the testing today.

Once again this year, we had many comic books given to my class by the owner of a comic book store in Castleton, who happens to be one of my karate students. So those were a dangling carrot for the kids throughout the day today, and so they got those just before recess. They were reading things like Mega Man, Spongebob, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Transformers. Not high-art reading like I normally require, but every kid deserves a break every so often. And don't worry--tomorrow we will be tying this into a lesson where the kids will write letters of appreciation in which they will have to summarize (Rigby style!) the story that they read.

Speaking of which, look for another writing assignment for this evening from the Rigby reading book. They will have to answer one of two questions. I'm not going to say which one they have to choose, but I would recommend they do #2, because #1 looks kind of hard to answer. Plus, we just read the story in #2 today aloud in class, so it should be fresh in their minds even though it's by far the longer piece.

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