Bookshelf

A bookshelf fell over this morning.  Actually, it had a little help.  Two boys were tussling on the cube in the reading corner and their tussle knocked the bookshelf backwards.  There wasn't anyone to stop it... and if there were, it's way too heavy for one person to save.  It didn't crash all the way to the ground; the lab table stopped it from falling.  We hefted it back into place and pounded the nails back in.  The books survived unscathed while the bookshelf is a little worse for the wear.  Not all the nails went back in right (or pulled out enough for me to pound them in).  Sigh. It could've been worse. At least no one got hurt.  My students decided we need a new place for the cube since everyone argues over who gets to sit on it when we meet in the reading corner (which causes shoving and some near-misses with the bookshelf).  I agree.  Right now it's in the middle of the reading corner, and it just might stay there!

Today was our student teacher's first day.  She just observed and spent time getting to know some of the students during our study hall.  Oh it's going to be so hard to give up science to her! She showed me her lesson plan for Wednesday on the Nervous System.  Not too heavy on the content as far as I could see, then again, it's really annoying to put everything you plan on saying into the lesson plan, so I'm sure it will be fine.  After class, she commented that both classes have a lot of energy.  That's definitely true. She also said she thinks the 7th and 8th graders will be challenging... they even had a (mostly) good day today! No one got into arguments or yelled at each other too much.  Hopefully they'll keep up the good behavior when she teaches them too. 

The 7th and 8th graders and I switched up the spelling week schedule a bit today.  Next week is a short week of school; this week is a full week.  This week's spelling is review (always less work than a typical week), so they wanted to know if we could flip spelling so the longer/regular week is this week and the review week is next week when there's less time.  Sure! Why not?  Some people already handed in their spelling words x3 this week, so they're ahead of the game for next week.  

I am so glad April Fool's Day was not on a school day!  My kids apparently are big into pranks and told me all about the pranks they did on their parents.  That reminded me of this hilarious spelling test prank a teacher pulled on his students earlier last week... I showed it to my kiddos. They thought it was great. Here it is if you want to watch it too.