Life of the Party

     It never fails! Each week I sit for about an hours planning what we will be doing the following week. Well...... everything seems to fall through here lately. I literally sit and map out everything on scrap paper before transcribing it over into my official lesson plan book. I wanted my students to have opportunities to do more group work, but it seems that group work only makes our work take twice as long.        I promise to post pictures of their projects with in a week. I didn't get to see all of my classes as planned. I had forgot about an early release day and that this past week was our homecoming. 

      Getting my students to explore new books is like pulling teeth! I have learned that literature circles is the answer to my problem. They really like to work together and having a team mate to get things done with seems to ease the tension. We are currently reading the awesome book, War Horse . Most of my classes seem to really enjoy the book. I will be posting some of their projects. Hopefully we will have this book completed before the end of this month!         

It just isn't worth my time going out to these games.   I wanted to go and support my students, but nothing went was planned. A angry parent ruined my entire day.  Hopefully, I will never experience that kind of reception again. 

         Waiting on hold is not how I want to spend my Saturday morning.   When the Verison employee answered the phone I was completely lost. First of all he didn't even understand my question and he didn't really seem to want to help me.   He was speaking in complete lingo so I was lost in translation.   Maybe it was his broken English/ misuse of vocabulary, or maybe it was my aggravation, but now I'm just mad! I vehemently called the customer service line!           I wasted two hours of my day to get one simple problem fixed.