Can
I get an Hallelujah, Amen and a WOOO HOOO!! Testing is OVER! DONE! KAPUT! I am
sooooo happy for it to be done (and so are the kiddos). This year was
particularly grilling because instead of just the survey edition of the
Standardized test like we usually do, our sweet princi-PAL decided to step it
up and do the CORE testing which was about 10 pages longer-translation TWO DAYS
longer. BUT HOO-RAY we are DONE!!
In
between all that testing we did have some fun. We started our
Biography/Autobiography unit using The Teacher Wife's super cool unit. Check it out your kiddos will enjoy it as much as mine I’m sure.
We
also took Tammy’s ideas from Forever in First about poetry and worked on poetry
for our Poetry Anthology. The kiddos LOVED sketching the objects and then
writing poems about what they drew.
We
did two days together looking, discussing, sketching and writing a class poem.
They turned out pretty cute. We decided the back of a magnet looked like a
speaker and came up with this fun poem. The kids were having such a good time
reciting the “Little Speaker” poem the other first grade teacher had to come in
and see what ALL the noise was. They really got into the Boom Boom Booms!
This
week we will continue with our autobiographies and poetry writing. We made “wonder
wands” today and will be taking them outside tomorrow to look and sketch things
we find around the school and then come back inside to “use our poet thoughts
and thinking” to build great poetry.
Well
I have two of the milestones over for this month. My daughter’s prom was
Saturday night and YAY it was a success! I got the prom dress taken in, made
the vest, ended up making the bow tie (heaven forbid the oranges did not match!
Eek!), put on make-up (hers not mine), and gave the boyfriend a haircut.
New sandals or boots? |
Boots of course! |
Daughter and Daddy |
Next
up academic awards and scholarship banquet, OSU graduation, high school
graduation, parties for each, and moving the son to his new home, please
someone give me strength…or drugs! LOL!
Your poetry is great! It's always inspiring to see what other poets are coming up with. Congrats on crossing two milestones off your list. Good luck with the rest!
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My goodness you are busy. I can see why you're celebrating the tests being over! The poetry is darling, a happy time for your first graders doing both autobiographies & poetry. And finally, how wonderful are those prom pics. High school kids are such fun & you sound like you had a good time, too! Thanks for sharing all Tammy. Have a wonderful last few weeks too!
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