A LOOOOOOONG WEEK...

That's what it was. Like, "I can't remember what I did on Monday" long. The main issue was that I have a cold, so it made for some tired days. That and I was kind of losing my voice. I'm pretty sure all of Wednesday must have seemed like I was going through puberty the way that my voice was cracking. I definitely am very thankful for the Redcat hands-free microphone and speaker that I have in my room after this week! Luckily, I feel like I am on the tail end of my cold--most of the stuffiness is gone, and I just need to catch up on sleep. I probably should have stayed home one day to give my throat a rest, but I'm stubborn...

It was a pretty eventful week. All the testing that I talked about last week is pretty well finished up. I'm very pleased with the progress that the class made with the aimswebPlus testing. The class as a whole showed some pretty nice growth! I haven't had a chance to check the math fact tests yet, so that is on the docket for this weekend. That will then lead into the next big job to tackle...report cards!

In other news, I had an opportunity to make a connection for the kids between science, writing, and some computer skills. In science for the last couple of weeks we have been learning about life cycles, and the science standard requires the students to make a model of a life cycle. This correlated perfectly (I'll be honest, it wasn't really planned) with what we were doing in our animal writing projects--the students are going to be putting text features into their books. So I showed the students how to use Google Drawing and now we have some life cycles in our animal reports!

Mindfulness thought for the week: Perseverance means not giving up even when something is _____.
I had a little fun with the students this week and had them fill in the blank. Some of the answers: hard, difficult, tough, rough, crazy, and challenging.

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