One student found the word "date" at the top of his page. He asked what it said. I said, "date."
The next obvious response was "My parents go on a date!!!"
I share to say that I have found one of the hardest things for kids to understand is time. We do calendar everyday. We talk about the "date" every day. We cover days of the week, the month, and year but it is still completely foreign to most of the them. I don't know when they "get it." I hope most of them start to have a general sense by the end of the year, but I don't count on it. I've decided it's one of those things that will suddenly make sense one day and nothing I do will make that day come faster or sooner. I have a feeling if I taught them how to tell time that would help but then they would tell me when it was time to do things and I would lose some of my precious control. Besides, the new common core standards say that I don't have to teach time. Easy cop out but completely true.
I do not like writing sub plans. I am getting ready to do 2 days of testing so I get to listen to 2nd graders read while there is a sub in my room. It helps that I have a good one, but that does not make it easier to write them. I drive away sickness with my loathing of sub plans.
We are HALFWAY through the year! That seems crazy but I am loving what we have accomplished so far. So many of them are reading and writing independently that it is exciting to watch them learn. I have an idea for a post about taking pictures of their writing and making you guess what it says. It probably isn't nearly as exciting to you as it is to me but it's fun to watch. They have gone from nothing to something. AND we still have 85 days to go.
The 100th day is Thursday! It's a fun day. Pictures? Maybe.
The next obvious response was "My parents go on a date!!!"
I share to say that I have found one of the hardest things for kids to understand is time. We do calendar everyday. We talk about the "date" every day. We cover days of the week, the month, and year but it is still completely foreign to most of the them. I don't know when they "get it." I hope most of them start to have a general sense by the end of the year, but I don't count on it. I've decided it's one of those things that will suddenly make sense one day and nothing I do will make that day come faster or sooner. I have a feeling if I taught them how to tell time that would help but then they would tell me when it was time to do things and I would lose some of my precious control. Besides, the new common core standards say that I don't have to teach time. Easy cop out but completely true.
I do not like writing sub plans. I am getting ready to do 2 days of testing so I get to listen to 2nd graders read while there is a sub in my room. It helps that I have a good one, but that does not make it easier to write them. I drive away sickness with my loathing of sub plans.
We are HALFWAY through the year! That seems crazy but I am loving what we have accomplished so far. So many of them are reading and writing independently that it is exciting to watch them learn. I have an idea for a post about taking pictures of their writing and making you guess what it says. It probably isn't nearly as exciting to you as it is to me but it's fun to watch. They have gone from nothing to something. AND we still have 85 days to go.
The 100th day is Thursday! It's a fun day. Pictures? Maybe.
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