The kids were pretty good today, except when they fell apart...it is tough to get them to work together in group projects because they have a tendency to bicker. Someone says something, someone else gets his/her nose out of joint, and we are off to the races...we tried a little experiment with building the perfect paper airplane today. It was hard enough finding a place to fly, because the building is pretty crowded. We started, and then got moved, and then that reallt went to the dogs. I finally pulled them back into the classroom, and tried to have a postmortem on what went wrong. I think that caused me to really lose my patience. The backbiting gets to be a little much sometimes. Oh, well, we will try again tomorrow. The math kids, on the other hand, did pretty well. So, I guess that we have that working for us.
We did seem to have fun with a writing exercise. I am working on the writing process itself. We took a stab at free writing and word association, with pairs of kids coming up to see what they could do in 60 seconds. I also showed them that they can keep a journal, so that perhaps they can pull information from it in the future for expanded writing projects. I showed them this blog as an example of how they can try to get better at writing by doing it consistently.
Tonight was girls' open gym, and I hepled out a little bit with the preparations for tomorrow night's dinner. I probably could have justified staying at home and sleeping, but it was too boring to contemplate. Maybe I will catch up over the Labor Day weekend.
Tomorrow is Hump Day already, and it promises to be a long one. If I remember correctly, I had a cold last year at about this time. I just hope that I am not doing this all over again...
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