Wk 6 - Day 26

today was the start of full-time teaching for the next 5 weeks. mrs. s kept asking me if there was anything she could do for me; copies, etc. i said "nope." i've got everything ready to go for the 3 days this week and the following week too. this weekend i'll work on the lessons for the following week so that i can stay a week ahead of schedule. i don't want to be working on things during the last minute possible.

the students are working on making a prehistoric animal poster...laminated and everything. the poster is ~24"x24" and will contain information like; scientific classification and interesting facts. the students all seem interested in the project, so i'm curious on what the final project will look like. i brought out two samples that were made ahead of time and also a cart of dinsosaur books in case they couldn't find anything on the web. i think the hardest part was creating a list of prehistoric animals for the students. i didn't have the students choose their own animal...everyone wants the t-rex, stegosaurus, or brontosaurus. i cut up the names of animals into strips and had the students draw names from a hat. students were paired up...mostly due to cost of creating the poster...and it's just more fun that way. most of the students in the classes have shown that even though they can be chatty (7th grade is just plain noisey), they are also productive. only a handful of students have been doomed to work on their own since they just can't seen to stay on task. everything has been coming along great.