What a Marvelous Week!

I have been enjoying my work week immensely. Monday was rather heinous, but the rest of the week has been down right fabulous.

Tuesday was wonderful because I had an hour prep before lunch and I downed 3 candy bars, mmmmmmm. Then I also walked our Gold Medal Mile laps with 4 darling little ladies. I do enjoy those laps inside the school building!

Wednesday was make-up Lunch Bunch day since there was no school on Monday. Mondays I draw 10 lucky names out of our paint tin of tickets that have been turned in for returning homework items every morning. Then lunch is brought back to the classroom and we chat while we eat. The first couple months I had a craft that we (okay, I) would make for the participants to take home. Then it moved to games, until I bought Marshmallow guns. I had a blast shooting marhsmallows at first years. I was their target, so I felt picked on, but it was a fun, fun, fun time.

Thursday is another coveted day with an hour prep after lunch and then we stop at the computer lab. This week I ditched the typical math website and opted for a different one. After trying to get most students logged in, I had fun wandering around listening to their comments of how fun, how did you get it to do that, I got it right.

There are other fantastic experiences this week. We are working on personal books and the first page of our book is about yourself. It is delightful to watch students think of the most important thing about themselves. I shared the book, The Important Book and we copied the format on each page. One friend wrote that his important thing was that his Mom loves him. Then he wrote I like shooting my BB gun. It made me giggle. Another kid wrote that he was good at playing Mario Cart as his most important thing.

We also worked on another page for our book. It is The Seven Continents. This challenge of a student raised his hand to offer a sentence for our shared writing lesson. It amazed me, which shouldn't have because he is great at recalling information. Well, he piped up about the Statue of Liberty's crown having one spike for each continent. I just love it when my teaching is manifested in such wonderful ways.

Some other noteworthy activities is that we spelled ATTENDANCE for the third time this year (we earn a letter each day that everyone is at school) and we had chips and salsa for our reward. Then we had our ninth Zero the Hero Day with donuts! AND to top all that off we had a phonics lesson and split the class in two groups and they were wonderfully cooperative.