Hello,
Sorry about no blog yesterday. Yesterday was rough. My patience was really thin by the end of the day. It was quarter of seven by the time I sat down for the blog. I just didn't have it in me. I had already sent some emails that were probably a little too snippy. I just packed up and left.
I was upset with a number of things. In math I was upset that after two weeks of giving them strategies to understand fractions, their number one strategy upon hearing a fraction question continues to be to listen for someone to yell out the answer so they can immediately mimic that answer, regardless if it makes sense. I also had some behaviors that I had to deal with that they should know that I don't tolerate. I asked, "How long do I have to be your teacher before you realize..." a few times. Not my best moments. No one wants to be the "yelling teacher." It happened. I've moved on.
Today went better. We're using the National Geographic website to follow the explorations of Lewis and Clark. Our main character, Isabel, in our read aloud, Chains, has decided to spy on her Tory owner for the patriots. We went to lunch with our 3rd grade lunch buddies today. We worked with clay in art class. We learned a lot about how Hawaii came into existence as our 50th state.
I spent a little part of the day talking about the upcoming schedule. We will miss four class periods due to Arts Are Elementary. It is a fantastic program that brings arts to the classroom. We will be learning about and making our own ceramic face jugs made by southern slaves in the 1800's. Every Friday for most of the remaining year we will be having a local police officer come into our classrooms in conjunction with the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. Six hours of testing is on the horizon for the Smarter Balanced test prep test. More info on that to come.
Spelling test tomorrow.
Thanks for reading.
Have a good night.
Mr. Shea
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