Day 21

Things wen well today especially after over 12 hours at school. I know this is a self-inflected wound. I arrived at school today at 7 am because I had a meeting at the district last night and went home instead of going back to work. It took me almost an hour to get every thing ready for school. Luckily I was pretty much ready when I left school last night.

Besides the normal daily routine, I met with two parents after school. These were both good meetings and I had the chance to help my students take some responsibility for not completing their studies. Both parents were very supportive of what I am doing in the class.

In math today we spent the day relearning Chapter 7 and then retesting. All students did much better. I sent a pretest home and hopefully they learned something from what we have been learning. I did not get much of a chance to work with Language Arts other than spelling. I did not get to Science at all. We are still working on the IOWA test and it takes almost an hour to complete a test.

I paid up on my weight gain for last week and gave all of my students animal crackers. They are lower on calories than other cookie snacks.

I am trying to get my Science lesson beefed up on Volcanoes. I complete my PowerPoint presentation tonight and will use it to introduce the subject. I also bought a fresh loaf of bread and some apples, along with hard boil eggs to show similarities with the earth. If I can work it in tomorrow we will create a volcano using salt dough. I also put together the Volcano Art project for Friday. Finally, I made copies of the USOE Core Academy for 2007 - Math and 2006 -Science. Both are topics I need additional help in.

I still have not taken the time to go back and catch up on the previous days. I hope to have the time to do it in the near future.