I'm pleased that our testing is done. The fourth grade started today. The third grade starts next week. It is a lot of class time. I feel more like a baby sitter than a teacher during that time. I finally get to do some teaching tomorrow.
My mentor teacher came in to visit the classroom tonight. She retired this past year from Portland schools and now she will start coming in to volunteer every Tuesday during literacy. She will be a real asset to the class and will be great with small group lessons and one on one tutoring.
The class chose historical fiction books to read. I'll take a look at the choices tomorrow to make sure that we have good fit books. It is one of my favorite genres, so hopefully some of my enthusiasm rubs off.
Permission slips went home for the Tuesday homework club. Here's part of it:
Our first Tuesday homework club starts this week. The class has chosen to make this a
non-themed club. They will vote each
week on what they want to do after they finish their homework. This could be sports, games, Lego’s, fun
science, K’nex, Erector sets, or whatever else they can come up with. The Thursday homework club will continue to
be called the Movie Club. We will be
making and watching movies. So even
though they are both homework clubs, the Tuesday club will be referred to as
the Homework Club, and the Thursday club will be referred to as the Movie
Club.
This Thursday, October 10th, the
Movie Club will be watching the 1939 original Wizard of Oz movie. This movie is rated PG. I will send a separate permission slip home
any time that we will be viewing a movie.I'm hoping that watching some of the movie classics will inspire us to do bigger and better things in our movie club.
I think we're going offline here soon, so I'm going to end this.
Have a good night.
Mr. Shea
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