The past few days have seemed endless; oh look! I'm capitalizing on our suffixes lesson...is it weird that I'm walking around labeling everything I say now? Probably. Well, there are some updates & some funny & serious highlights to share. Tomorrow is our first class field trip; that should be fun! And somewhat interesting as well.
Today when I was teaching the Literacy block, I asked my students to think of an adjective the author used in the story to describe the cattle. One of my students, without thinking or raising his hand blurted out "the cows were horny?" Oh dear........I told him that while the cows have horns that does not make them...ahem, well you get the idea. At least I didn't laugh aloud when he said it, or he would probably have kept repeating that phrase the entire day!
After-school today, my favorite troublemaker's mom came to get him & to get a report on how he's doing; today wasn't such a great day to check up on all that. Furthermore, he brought his mom's personally obtained crystals to school & started trading them with other students at recess & giving them away to others in the class. She was pretty furious when she made that discovery after school. ...& I found it interesting that she said the reason he just has a bag & not a backpack with pockets is because he likes to hide things he shouldn't be bringing to school. Weird.
Last night I graded writing samples my students wrote from awhile ago. They were written based on a prompt about good memories shared with friends. Unfortunately, one of my students mentioned his brother getting arrested during his "good memory" retelling; that really broke my heart. These kids really have a tough life & I'm just so amazed that they make it to school every day.
p.s. If you've heard this phrase before, go ahead & laugh, but if not, ask me what it means....I just learned today! Corn-dogging (and I'm not talking about the food connotation....)
