The back pain is getting a little better each day, but I'm taking it pretty easy in the classroom. The students are being helpful, and if there's a little less work than usual, well, they're hiding their disappointment well.
Today we worked on "frontloading" our next story. This is one of the new buzz words in education, and it just means doing some activity which helps get children ready for the next group of lessons. In our case, we are getting ready for "The Girl Who Loved the Wind," a story by Jane Yolen based on a variety of Persian tales. Since a magic carpet is featured in the story, we wrote fantasies about what we would do if we had a magic carpet. It was quite surprising how different the many stories were.
The students also began to make their own magic carpet. Most needed to take these home to finish, but we'll take some pictures and have them on the blog tomorrow. They look like they'll be great, too.
Other than that, a normal Wednesday. Some students had orchestra, and we went to PE.
Home Studies: (1) Finish the Magic Carpet story and picture. (2) Do the social studies worksheet.
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