Hello,
I forgot to hand out the permission slips for the field trip and the conference sign up slips. Both are sitting right next to me. My apologies. Tomorrow maybe?
The scheduling meeting wasn't very exciting. It didn't come to blows. We'll hammer this out by January.
Today was the first day that Bowdoin students were here on the same day. It is nice having an extra helper in the class. We had two for the morning block and one for math. Thank you to Coral, Madison and Pete.
Homework tonight is to write up sentences using their spelling words. I don't want more than two spelling words per sentence. I know that was many kids first thought. "Can I put all the words in one sentence?" was immediately asked.
"No," came the immediate reply.
"Two?"
I believe I let out a long sigh before answering.
Ms. D'Agostino said that today's physical education class was very rough. She said that she didn't see much in the way of teamwork. I guess some tempers flared and people weren't very nice to each other. You might ask your child for their version and then talk about it. It wasn't the type of report that I like to hear, but I can see it happening. I'm not seeing as much teamwork and camaraderie as I would expect by now either. Oftentimes it is easier to show that in a classroom, than in an athletic competition. I have participated in a couple of our phys. ed. classes and I saw firsthand a lot of "win at all costs" attitudes. Once one person got offended, things escalated quickly. As with everything, we'll keep working on it.
On a brighter note, our custodian has been very impressed with our neater, cleaner classroom. Students are taking more responsibility in getting their junk off the floor and their chair on their desk. Thank you class!
Gotta run,
Mr. Shea
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