Week 9: Day 1

Happy Monday! Man am I tired. I got nothing done this weekend (I got a few things corrected, but other than that I am looking at a huge stack of things that need to be completed). Today was a day of catching up, and starting new things. Basically everything last week was finished up by Thursday so that we didn’t have to have finish up work on Friday/today. The only thing that really was a continued concept would have been science, where we started a science experiment relating to the chapter we just finished in our book.

The science experiment was a question in my head, on whether or not the students could handle having one. I gave out the expectations that they were going to show me they could handle it so I could assign more of them, a little more often. There was a slight bit of talking and goofing around, but nothing too serious. We did the science experiment during math time, and then just pushed math backwards into science time. Math was a normal day, where we talked about estimating, and a little bit about rounding and problem solving.

Social studies… that subject really did take a while to get through. All we were going to do was quickly go over our social studies test we took on Friday in between our recess and concert times. I asked simple honest questions, and literally went right through the ENTIRE test. There were a few students that needed to make corrections on their tests, that if they were following along they could have had all the corrections finished by the time the class was over. They had a bit of a trouble coming up with examples. A few students instead of writing examples re-wrote the definition from the page before. Some of the examples I was looking for were a little bit more on the tricky side (Name an example of a National Park), but they had three days to study off of their study sheet. I had a hard time justifying that fact that maybe they didn’t know what an example meant. That was a hard concept, and I still feel that they know what it means, they just didn’t carefully and fully read the directions (which I know they don’t do).