Last week I mentioned the oh so popular "flossing" dance move and how I can't stand it but you know what else is popular (and unfortunately will likely still be popular in September unlike my prediction with flossing)... Fortnight.
Apparently you can play it on your cell phone which is why I suspect it's so popular.... if you don't NEED a gaming console then that means all these kids can play it at school... and boy do they ever!
Every morning when I walk down the halls (before school starts) they are playing it, at lunch playing it, during class... talking about it, and after school.. still playing it.
Luckily for me my students are so concerned with me getting in on this awesome new game that they've offered to help me when I start playing it. I can join their troops and they'll give me stuff... or something along those lines.. I have no intention of playing it so it's not all that important what they are giving me.
Monday, June 25, 2018
Saturday, June 23, 2018
This Week At School
Before I tell you about this week at school can we just take a moment to appreciate that we are officially down to our last week of school here! 4 more days with students and one inservice day and then I'm officially on summer break! So... if I happen to not post anything at all that first week of July it's because I'm taking some time to enjoy my first week off (plus, it's my birthday that week) but the posts will continue after that!
Anywho... this week at school
I put the kids into groups and we started practicing debates. We've been using this book and the short "articles" in it are perfect for my class... especially since the iPads at the school have been super unreliable so this way they all have a bit of research sitting in front of them ready to go. The plan is to present out debates next week BUT.... I'm getting the morning off from school on Monday which leaves only a couple of other days as possibilities... so we'll probably just play games in ELA instead.
I took my students to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. If you've never been you really should go. I'm not sure I would ever arrange a field trip there again though... only because it's a lot of walking and reading (although also very interactive)... you just need to have a class of students that is all interested in that sort of stuff otherwise you'll have a handful that spend the day complaining and I am just not all about that on a field trip! Anyways, if you are planning on visiting here (or live here) the museum is actually free to get into the first Wednesday of every month after 5pm. 4 hours will not be enough to get through the whole museum but you'll certainly learn a lot!
I played some Settlers of Catan one day with some grade 8 students. I was supposed to be helping out on a walk to Tim Horten's but this class needed some coverage so I may not have gotten my ice cap but the trade off wasn't too bad.
Friday we had some awards in the morning and then spent the entire afternoon outside. Luckily the rain held off until I made a mad dash to my car after school but the heat certainly did not. It was likely sitting around +35 all afternoon. But the kids were troopers and at the end of the afternoon the schools Rock Band put on an outdoor performance for us which was kind of cool (fun fact: my classroom was right beside the room where the rock band practiced so I could often hear them practicing through the walls... and I didn't mind it).
We had our final TUSC meeting. It was actually the first couple of periods before we left on our field trip and about 10 or so students didn't make it to school that day because they weren't going on the field trip. So the meeting ran relatively smoothly. One of my students had been requesting I do one of the speeches so I came with some banana cookies to tell them about and to share with the class. On Friday one of the boys who wasn't there the day of the meeting insisted on doing his which was making protein shakes. He said they were good for muscle repair after a hard workout so he made everyone that wanted one do a single push up.
All in all it was not too shabby of a second to last week of school.
BUT... I'm REALLY looking forward to my summer break!
Anywho... this week at school
I put the kids into groups and we started practicing debates. We've been using this book and the short "articles" in it are perfect for my class... especially since the iPads at the school have been super unreliable so this way they all have a bit of research sitting in front of them ready to go. The plan is to present out debates next week BUT.... I'm getting the morning off from school on Monday which leaves only a couple of other days as possibilities... so we'll probably just play games in ELA instead.
I took my students to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. If you've never been you really should go. I'm not sure I would ever arrange a field trip there again though... only because it's a lot of walking and reading (although also very interactive)... you just need to have a class of students that is all interested in that sort of stuff otherwise you'll have a handful that spend the day complaining and I am just not all about that on a field trip! Anyways, if you are planning on visiting here (or live here) the museum is actually free to get into the first Wednesday of every month after 5pm. 4 hours will not be enough to get through the whole museum but you'll certainly learn a lot!
I played some Settlers of Catan one day with some grade 8 students. I was supposed to be helping out on a walk to Tim Horten's but this class needed some coverage so I may not have gotten my ice cap but the trade off wasn't too bad.
Friday we had some awards in the morning and then spent the entire afternoon outside. Luckily the rain held off until I made a mad dash to my car after school but the heat certainly did not. It was likely sitting around +35 all afternoon. But the kids were troopers and at the end of the afternoon the schools Rock Band put on an outdoor performance for us which was kind of cool (fun fact: my classroom was right beside the room where the rock band practiced so I could often hear them practicing through the walls... and I didn't mind it).
We had our final TUSC meeting. It was actually the first couple of periods before we left on our field trip and about 10 or so students didn't make it to school that day because they weren't going on the field trip. So the meeting ran relatively smoothly. One of my students had been requesting I do one of the speeches so I came with some banana cookies to tell them about and to share with the class. On Friday one of the boys who wasn't there the day of the meeting insisted on doing his which was making protein shakes. He said they were good for muscle repair after a hard workout so he made everyone that wanted one do a single push up.
All in all it was not too shabby of a second to last week of school.
BUT... I'm REALLY looking forward to my summer break!
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Rappers
There are 2 "rappers" at my school.
I don't recall what both of their names are but I do know that one goes by the name "Lil' Clorox" (I know the other one goes by another cleaning supply... I want to say it's either Borax or Bleach.
At any rate when they asked me if they knew who was who I managed to guess correctly and boy were they excited claiming "everybody knows" (who they are that is).
They then rapped... not for me as they assumed I was no longer listening but who could resist a good rap (am I right?) and part of it went...
"I'm not much of a rapper but I am a big crapper"
To which I responded..."I'm sorry, you're a big what?"
Needless to say the student turned red and the rap was over.
Monday, June 18, 2018
Flossing
There's always got to be some kind of fad that I just can't get behind.
Flossing has officially made it's way to Canada... and no I don't mean of the teeth (I mean, yes, we floss our teeth here... or at least some of us do) I mean the lovely little "dance" move that everyone in middle school is doing.
I say it's made it's way to Canada because I often find things take an extra couple of months to make it here... I have cousins in the states that are around my students age and so when they come up to Canada in the summer I always ask them about the latest fads and if they are already over and done with. Last year it was fidget spinners and slime that were causing havoc in my classroom. In July they were already no longer "in" in the states so I knew they would be out of style in Canada when school started up again in September. Turns out I was right.
So here's hopping I only have to put up with "flossing" for another month and no one will remember what it was come September.
Flossing has officially made it's way to Canada... and no I don't mean of the teeth (I mean, yes, we floss our teeth here... or at least some of us do) I mean the lovely little "dance" move that everyone in middle school is doing.
I say it's made it's way to Canada because I often find things take an extra couple of months to make it here... I have cousins in the states that are around my students age and so when they come up to Canada in the summer I always ask them about the latest fads and if they are already over and done with. Last year it was fidget spinners and slime that were causing havoc in my classroom. In July they were already no longer "in" in the states so I knew they would be out of style in Canada when school started up again in September. Turns out I was right.
So here's hopping I only have to put up with "flossing" for another month and no one will remember what it was come September.
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