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Friday, 10/17
7:45 - 2:45

Today was a busy, busy day, as is usual for Friday. A combination of the two 5th grade classes came in to work on Mesopotamia, since the rest of the 5th grade was away at a track meet. Not sure what thatapos;s about, but it was a different mix of kids so at least itapos;s different. Second period was 7H, who finished up their spreadsheet math and got a quick intro for the Electoral College project. It will be interesting, as 7H is two days behind 7B. Fun�During the 8th grade math period, I met with Ms. D to go over what 1D is doing this coming week for math. Theyapos;re working on money now, so weapos;re planning an activity that uses Kidspiration to let them manipulate coins to make change. I had originally thought KidPix, but Bob suggested Kidspiration. Iapos;m kind of sad that I didnapos;t think of it, of course it works so much better. Someday Iapos;ll get better at thinking of things like that�When 7B came, it was day 2. They watched a cute BrainPOP video about presidential elections, which I think helped them understand. Then they worked on their research a little bit more, which went fairly well at first. When they met with their groups, it was hellacious. Most of them didnapos;t get anything accomplished, and those that did were ready to move on to something else. The gap between the classes is large, but now there is a big gap between students in the class itself. I�was feeling down after the class ended because it went poorly (and I did make an announcement that I expected better work out of them next week), but Bob and I talked through better ways to do things and Iapos;m feeling a little better. Trial and error�In the afternoon we also had 3G, who worked in KidPix, and plenty of time to organize things for Monday. Letapos;s hope it goes better next week.
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