Sigh, today was the best day we've had in a long time. It's also probably the most fun I've had teaching in a long time. There were zero meltdowns. Kids were focused (the majority of the time). We achieved our class goal we made yesterday (have four or fewer names on the board for blurting each class period). So. Good.
Our devotion talked about the pamphlet Common Sense written back in the Revolutionary War times... yeah, that's what our social studies lesson was about today. Connections!
Everyone was super engaged in the read-aloud book, so we read extra while they all worked on spelling/handwriting. Everyone turned their spelling in on time; I didn't have to bug anyone to do it.
They really liked our Daily 5 class book too! They didn't want to stop reading it (we ran out of time and had to pause until next week).
The 5-8th graders signed up for the Young Writers and Artists Conference today and they all successfully registered (some had trouble last year and didn't find out their registration didn't go through until the day of the conference). They all got in the classes they wanted and are excited about them. Two boys were absent this morning when my class signed up, so their classmates registered for them so they could be in the same classes together. Yes! Looking out for each other!
It was just an all around great day. And I have ladies bible study tonight!
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