Monday and Tuesday

Monday was a fairly easy day for me as a teacher. As it turned out, the kids had a ton of specials which meant that they were barely in the classroom. I finished a lot of extra work that I needed to get done, especially typing and formatting the kids' poems for their poetry books and portfolios. I also did a fair amount of grading subtraction and fractions. Tuesday was much busier. The class only had one special, Library, so they were in the classroom pretty much the entire day. I started out the morning (basically until lunch) helping them watercolor the Haikus that they wrote. Who ever would've thought I would be the one helping children paint??? Luckily it didn't take much artistic skill on my end. After a much needed "brain break," which is basically recess and one of the greatest inventions ever, the kids went off to lunch and then recess. In the afternoon we worked on our Cleveland study, finished decorating poems, and then continued to practice fractions. They made a ton of progress, especially because it is crunch time. The kids definitely have their own form of Senioritis. I can easily tell that just in the last few weeks their motivation and desire to be in the classroom has gone down very quickly. Therefore, their patience and attentiveness have gone down as well, which makes my job a little bit more difficult. Although, the kids love having me in the classroom so I've really enjoyed being with them as well. To end the day, I began assembling shape books for the second graders, as they learn about shapes for their final math lesson of the year.