10:5

Today went really well. Man what a crazy day, though. I think Friday’s are student’s favorite days and teachers too. I like Fridays, but sometimes I don’t want it to be Friday, I would love to be in school all the time (maybe then I’d stay caught up!). Sometimes students are really crazy on Fridays. I don’t know what it is about third graders. I don’t know if it is this every class or just this one. They seem to think that they can pick and choose what homework assignments they get to do, and what ones they get to skip. A lot of them had math homework assigned to them from Miss M, and a lot of them didn’t do it and return the books. I just can’t figure it out, no matter who assigns the homework, no matter how easy/fun/hard/boring it may be, they just choose whether they want to do it or not. One student today we were working on our “dictionary definitions” sheet that was assigned yesterday in Reading, and a student came up to me and told me she didn’t want to do it. She wasn’t even kidding, she was hoping, and trying to get me to tell her that she didn’t have to do it. She could get away with not having to do it. There was also another student who was working on his weekly English letter to me, and spent over an hour not writing it because he didn’t want to, and also because he didn’t know what he was doing this upcoming weekend. I made him stay in at recess, and he decided he could now do it, but couldn’t do it before when he had a classmate helping him, as well as me helping him. He just chose not to do it, he was hoping I wouldn’t make him do it, and he could take it home for homework. When he started he wrote his 3 sentences within two minutes, and I told him I wasn’t going to accept it, because he rushed through it done so he could go play outside. I had him add to the letter to give it a little bit more meat to body, rather than just tiny bits.

We had our first parent visitor today, and I was unsure as to why she came in, but she seemed very nice, and wanted to know how her son was doing.