Ahh, today was such a struggle anytime I had to address the class. If I needed to raise my voice loud enough to be heard by everyone, I just ended up sounding like a 13 year old going through puberty. I shall certainly be resting my voice this weekend. The biggest struggle was science because there was some factual/definition type things that we needed to review, and there isn’t much time to do it in an activity format, so I was having to lead a large group discussion, and just posing the questions was a struggle for my voice. I had to constantly move to different parts of the room and repeat things. Alas, I made it though.
I’m glad that I will technically have five weeks remaining to cover my two week unit because it’s such a struggle to get every subject in every day with all the extra events going on. If my Civil War unit had gone by the time frame that was planned, it would have ended this week. Instead, we won’t even get to start talking about reconstruction until the week after next. It is a bit of an extreme case with social studies being at the end of the day, though.
What brings the subject up though, is that we will be doing benchmark testing all week next week, and that will interrupt class at various times of the day. It will be interesting to see how things play out, especially since Monday is a professional learning day with teachers only.
One thing that I have seen that was pretty cool for the past two Fridays is vocabulary skits. The kids really enjoy doing them, and we get to see what they really think of the meanings of the words they try to portray. They come up with interesting scenarios and portray them in such funny ways that it makes me appreciate the level of creativity they have when they chose to let it show.
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