This week has seemed to drag on, but this morning during devotions it struck me that tomorrow is Friday! All of a sudden it felt like the week had gone so fast! It was quite strange.
My kids are doing well with their NaNos. More have been spending their writer's workshop time making their planet powerpoints since they'll be presenting them to the 1-4th graders next Monday and Tuesday.
We made Christmas program folders today (and by 'we' I mean two of my students stapled the script and song sheets together in a folder and passed them out to classes). We've been working on the Christmas bell songs for about a week or so and they're coming together nicely. Today's practice was actually pretty good!
There's one song of just 7-8th graders, "The First Noel", and they asked if we could repeat the song since it's kind of short. Sure. Then we had the idea to jazz it up by playing a fancy way. So we tried mallets, thumb damping, and table damping. The mallets sounded the prettiest, so we're going with that. One of the 8th graders thought we should end the song with a technique I can't remember the name of... it's where you ring the bell, then swing it down in an arch by your side and swing it back up and clunk it down on the foam table. So we're also going to try that. It was a great practice!
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