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February 4th, 2005 at 01:39 am

Not really too much to write today. My ceiling is still leaking, so I'm guessing that the water heater wasn't really the problem. Frown

I need to clean out my roll top desk tonight. I'm donating it (along with my lemon w/d unit) to the 11th/12th grade garage sale. Some of the male teacher's will be coming by after school tomorrow to get them. It will be so nice to not have to move those items. Smile They're going to have SO much fun getting them down my spiral staircase. NOT!

I am SO ready for the year to be over! I was promised an aide if I agreed to take a combined classroom. Even though I have a fairly small group - the majority of them are first graders, and with *having* to teach the prescribed, traditional curriculum (read: worksheets galore) it's not that easy. My second graders have no problem doing whatever I've asked them to do, and doing it quietly without interrupting my time with the first graders. But my first graders just haven't quite gotten the hang of the word "independant work". The last couple of days I haven't had my aide for math time, and it is to the point where I haven't been able to have much of real class time. I tried seperating the boys and girls, then having the second graders man the "store" with whichever group I wasn't working with (first is studying money). That worked sorta for the first two days, but today I made the mistake of starting with the girls, and letting the boys be first for the store. Between trying to explain to my girls what they were supposed to be doing, clueing in one of my girls who'd been absent the last three days, and trying to keep an eye on the "store" , not very much was accomplished with my first graders.

I did end up giving them all busywork (ugh!) and working with my second graders on 2-digit subtraction. We've been working on it for nearly two weeks now, and it has come slowly. Today, though, all our hard work has paid off! They were all able to do it when we just used the cubes, but they got SO mixed up when we moved from just the cubes to doing it on paper. But after many, many, sessions with them working through problems with me on my marker board step by step (while also doing the cubes) today they did marvelously with a double load of worksheets - and the ones where they didn't have to borrow only threw one of my little girls off for a bit!

Oops! I guess this is a bit longer than I thought it would be. Better be heading off into the wild yonder to take care of some things before ER. Smile

Spending Log:
Today: $0.00
No Spend Days: 4/12 Smile
Days till school is over: 72 (too many in my book!)

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

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