Teaching in December is crazy. But it's also fun. The report cards are written and go home on Monday. The students are hyper, done with school and needing a vacation. So why not add to the crazy by planning fun activities to keep them engaged. Today, we celebrated the end of our study of Mr Putter books. Since the character Mr Putter likes tea and english muffins, that is what our celebration called for as well. In the afternoon, we got together with two other classes to start a "Box, Not A Box" challenge, which involves turning a cardboard box into something more interesting. There were designs for spaceships and cars and castles and robots. Next week we do the crafting of the boxes. With my friend Lesley, we also set up math games and crafts and let the students choose their math activities for the week. It was pretty amazing how on-task they were and how much learning was happening. There was also a winter concert and pajama day and a staff meeting.This week also had crying support workers, teachers who quit, emergency chocolate, coffee and donuts, sobbing, screaming and lots of venting behind closed doors....It was a lot. I'm glad it's Friday.
