Friday frenzies

Highlights/ Low-lights:

• Assessments and data collection are full steam ahead...wondering why my first graders did so poorly on some...extending instruction time to meet their needs...Thinking about switching K and Grade 1 instructors/ instruction if the next unit assessments are still poor
• MLK board is coming together...just need to add 3 more finished projects
• First winter snow shovel out of my driveway this morning .. rough.
• Another indoor recess, but restarting my comp and inserting/ ejecting the DVD repeatedly made the video play! Woohooo! They loved Kidsongs "What I Want to Be" (knew they would)!
• Put up signs today for wearing red for the Lunar New Year
• Post conference with my director...uneasy about signing so quickly?... of course she didn't mention any dates about the ESL MTEL class...-.-
• Math K is struggling with partners and how the counters can be rearranged so many times and equal the same number

Biggest concerns:

• When should I start my penguin unit?  Maybe on the 30th...
• CNY starts Monday, and my mom is coming in on Wednesday to talk to the kids about it. :]
• New units beginning on Monday...lots to do
• K report cards
• tax forms
• my grad class starts on Tuesday
• future unannounced informal observations...
• penguin bulletin board outside the classroom
• farm animal display inside the classroom

Photo:
Introducing "Tattling Tiger"...if a student begins to tattle about a friend, they have to sit in this chair ( in the corner of the room) and tell Tattling Tiger; then, he/she signs her name (and I add the dates later).  In the future, they will begin to write out their tattles.  This random idea of mine is genius...revolutionary!

Tattling Tiger Area