Hello!
I know it has been a long time since I have been on here, but we have had some issues going on here at school. My student teacher, Miss McFarland, had some family issues come up, so she had to leave and go home. She will not be finishing her student teaching with us at this time. I picked up where she left off, so there would not be any interruption to the students' plans, but I had to come up with lesson plans for this week in a hurry. I decided to go ahead and finish up the Photo Story project on energy that the students were working on when Miss McFarland had to take over the class. We were going to finish it after Christmas, but the opportunity presented itself for us to do it now and I took it. With all the computer troubles we had, it has taken a week to get the test over atoms completed. The computers kept crashing on us and not letting us get to the site we needed to be on, so I had to extend the time needed to finish the test. The kids loved the site, when it was working, though, and asked if they could use it again! It really is a great site and I do hope we can use it again. Today, I am showing many of those Photo Story presentations and allowing students to finish up the ones that need completed. I will show those on Monday. I have been reviewing rocks, too. It was a little surprising how many students had forgotten the information on rocks. On Tuesday of next week, I am going to review the rock cycle with them and have them write a story about the life of a rock. It will be like they are that rock and they will be telling their life stories. I know there will be several out caroling with the chorus, but this will be used for review and I will do review again at a later date. They will get it again. When we come back from Christmas break, we will begin working on the states of matter and the changes that take place to those states.
Oh, don't forget that next Wednesday is our pizza party. Your child only needs to bring something to drink. We are providing the pizzas. I hope you have a great Christmas!!! I will talk to you again after the break!
