Hi parents,
Today was a great day for our class, so much better than yesterday, I am feeling incredibly relieved. :)
In the morning, Ms. Infante read the students the book "The Best Part of Me". We had a class discussion about how different body parts, like hands, feet, eyes, etc. help us to do the things we love. The students had to choose one body part that they were thankful for, and respond to the prompt: "The best part of me is...." They did an excellent job with that task. The room stayed quiet and everyone was on task.
After that, we did a really fun activity to test the strength of magnets. Each student was given a magnet wand, and asked to draw it in their sketchbook. The catch was, the had to draw it as a "magnet wrestler", and give it a tough wrestler name. Some of my favourite names were: "Destroyer", "Destruction", "Fireball", "Legend of Science", and of course, "Miss Nice".
Then, the students used their magnets to compete in a series of head to head 'magnet wrestling matches', in which one magnet tried to take a paperclip away from the other magnet. Whichever magnet was able to take the paperclip more frequently (we usually did best 2 out of 3) was deemed the stronger magnet. The winners of the first round advanced to the next round, and ultimately, "Steve" was crowned the strongest magnet. I sent everyone a picture of the tournament brackets on SeeSaw earlier, so that's what that was about.
In the afternoon, we had Daily 5, Music, and a very thorough and quiet classroom cleanup.
All around, I feel like the students are adjusting well to the changes I've made since yesterday. Nobody seemed too upset by the limited work choices, and the overall noise level was quite a bit lower than I've seen over the past few days. Hopefully tomorrow and Friday go just as well. :)
Have a "Cool" night,
Zac
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