I wasn't excited to come back to work, but my day was made so much better when I heard this:
Student: "I decided to write in Biblical language, Ms. Mayans." (then he begins to read his bell work about winter break, which was supposed to be written in 3rd person) "It came to pass that on the fourth hour of the 20th day of the 12th month of the 2012th year, there was a 13 year old boy named Jarom. Having a tummy ache, (and great was the ache thereof), he ran to the bathroom and spat food into the toilet. Nevertheless, Jarom did brush his teeth and went back unto his rest, and good was the rest thereof."
hahahahahah. I usually don't want to know about my students being sick, but this seriously made me cry, it was soooo funny!
Student: "I decided to write in Biblical language, Ms. Mayans." (then he begins to read his bell work about winter break, which was supposed to be written in 3rd person) "It came to pass that on the fourth hour of the 20th day of the 12th month of the 2012th year, there was a 13 year old boy named Jarom. Having a tummy ache, (and great was the ache thereof), he ran to the bathroom and spat food into the toilet. Nevertheless, Jarom did brush his teeth and went back unto his rest, and good was the rest thereof."
hahahahahah. I usually don't want to know about my students being sick, but this seriously made me cry, it was soooo funny!
To be honest, today wasn't the greatest day. It seemed that all of my classes were chatty and off task. We did some goal setting for the new year and upcoming new term, and we finished off the class period by reviewing some old stuff and reading a short story. I really didn't think my students would be in the correct mindset to learn something new, so we will wait a few days for that.
The final project for The Devil's Arithmetic is due on Friday, but some of my kids have already turned them in. THEY LOOK AMAZING!!!! Oh my gosh, I am so impressed and so proud! Everyone who turned it in today got an A. I could tell they had really spent a lot of time and effort on these projects and they learned a lot.
I now have to worry about planning my next unit plans. I need to teach argument writing, essay writing (5 paragraph essays), how to have discussions, The Outsiders, words for the spelling bee competition (coming up on February 7th), prefixes and suffixes,.... um, and I think that's it. That will last us a few months. I hope I survive! In addition to that, I also need to think about what I can do to prepare my students for the state testing in March. Even though I will never see the results, I want to help my kids do their best (and of course also demonstrate through their test scores that I am a decent teacher). So much to do, and the time just whizzes past.
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