Naturally, the good week we had last week (and my mentioning it) brought about a bad week. The kids lost their damn minds this week. It's that part of the October grind. Also, the full moon was approaching, which might have something to do with their behavior.
Monday- Forms of Energy Lab. I knew there was NO WAY we could get through all 6 lab stations during the class, so I did more of a demonstration-style lab. I called for volunteers to help during most stations.
Tuesday- UGH picture day snuck up on me. My 1st period barely got in the door before we rotated to 2nd. I had to move their lesson on Alternative Energy back to Friday (thus preventing them from doing the project). Everyone else learned about the 4 forms of alternative energy.
Wednesday- The kids took their Vocab Quiz. We also had enough time to go over their benchmarks from the 1st 6-weeks.
Thursday- Two of my classes got to do the project I had scheduled. We were supposed to make wind socks. Each student was assigned 2 forms of energy. Each was supposed to go on a strip of colored paper with the name of the form, two facts, and 2 picture examples. They did really well!
My first period (because of picture day) and the other 3 classes had to do BOOKWORK. They were so awful the first 3 days of the week, I felt they owed me silence to make up for all the talking.
Friday- My project classes finished the wind socks.
My badly behaved classes finished their book work and wrote an apology letter. I told them I'm keeping the letters and the next time they act a fool, I'm sending it home with a strongly worded letter, which will need to be signed and returned. I think I put the fear of science into them
And, naturally, I got called into the principals office Monday because one of the kids (whose mom teaches Science at our high school) got all butthurt about me assigning a class-wide essay. And to make matters worse, she broke the teacher code of common decency and went over my head and straight to the Vice Principal. I have many strongly worded names to call her, but this blog is not the place for such crass language.
Monday- Forms of Energy Lab. I knew there was NO WAY we could get through all 6 lab stations during the class, so I did more of a demonstration-style lab. I called for volunteers to help during most stations.
Tuesday- UGH picture day snuck up on me. My 1st period barely got in the door before we rotated to 2nd. I had to move their lesson on Alternative Energy back to Friday (thus preventing them from doing the project). Everyone else learned about the 4 forms of alternative energy.
Wednesday- The kids took their Vocab Quiz. We also had enough time to go over their benchmarks from the 1st 6-weeks.
Thursday- Two of my classes got to do the project I had scheduled. We were supposed to make wind socks. Each student was assigned 2 forms of energy. Each was supposed to go on a strip of colored paper with the name of the form, two facts, and 2 picture examples. They did really well!
My first period (because of picture day) and the other 3 classes had to do BOOKWORK. They were so awful the first 3 days of the week, I felt they owed me silence to make up for all the talking.
Friday- My project classes finished the wind socks.
My badly behaved classes finished their book work and wrote an apology letter. I told them I'm keeping the letters and the next time they act a fool, I'm sending it home with a strongly worded letter, which will need to be signed and returned. I think I put the fear of science into them
And, naturally, I got called into the principals office Monday because one of the kids (whose mom teaches Science at our high school) got all butthurt about me assigning a class-wide essay. And to make matters worse, she broke the teacher code of common decency and went over my head and straight to the Vice Principal. I have many strongly worded names to call her, but this blog is not the place for such crass language.
Next week it'll be time to dive into circuits!
~Ms. Kat
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