T Minus Three

We actually had a decent day today. I would even call it pleasant. Of course I had to deal with a few situations and general buckiness about late work and memory work, but they were minor and right away in the morning. 

They were probably tired from track and field. Or my schedule flopping worked. 

The half an hour after PE is often a battle, so I moved history to the morning, and let them pick what they wanted to do after PE. I wrote a list of what we needed to do on the board and then we voted what to do first. MN history won out ("Let's get the worst stuff over with!")

After that we did rounds and then pinata time. Ugh. Two groups were out of glue because of poor management of their resources. One group forgot to put the lid on and it dried up. The other group mixed food coloring in their glue, which made it runny and not sticky. Their consequence: do a job to get more glue. The kid who forgot to do the lid did a job right away. The kid who put the food coloring in refused to do a job saying he did a job already. Yeah, he 'wiped' the lab table off, but it's still dirty. I told him he had to do it again to earn more glue. So he said he would leave the pinata as is, only half done, even though it would be a bad grade. His poor partner eventually did a job to get more glue, while the first kid tried to use the food colored glue on the pinata anyway. 🙄 Sigh.