I hope no one minds, but even though it is my first week back I am not going to give out any detailed plans for the week. I have detailed plans…but I will not reveal them–next week. This week we are going to discuss some heavy duty topics that will all magically come together to create you last unit of the year that you will start next week. I will say that we will be discussing going to Mars, cloning, heroes, and the most important problems of the 21st Century. Mix them together, and you might be able to figure out what you’ll be creating next week!
Mr. B the ST finishes up his tenure with us this week! Yes, that’s right, you’re all coming back to me next week!
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This week the other Mr. B will continue working on the Civil War unit with all classes.
I am preparing a super duper unit on ______ ! We’ll start it after Mr. B leaves in only 8 more days.
This week I actually have it kind of easy. There are no, I repeat no, small groups still doing work, there are no skype conferences, no special projects of any kind. I will have plenty of extra time to sit back and eat all the chocolate-chip cookies and milk that you bring in.
I will be finishing up all the final student teaching paperwork and finishing up a grant to make us a 1:2 laptop room. Well not you, but next years kids-ouch!
Oh wait — there might be another live blog with our Aussie mates Thursday night. Still waiting to have that verified.
What a nice easy post to write this week!
This week the other Mr. B the ST is staring his unit on the Civil War.
Me? This is a week to catch up on student teacher paperwork-yuck! There will be a skype call with an elementary school Thursday at 10:15am from Wisconsin. They are interviewing students from all 50 states!
There will also be a skype call with Ms. Callahan’s second grade art classes from Kennerly Elementary school, the elementary school that is illustrating our children’s books on 19th Century immigration that will then be sent off to Monarch Academy in Oakland, CA to be read and reviewed and then all the way back to us!
Although not confirmed yet, there will be skype call with Deborah Weingrad the Vice-President of the Palace Production Center who is making a movie on the life of Frederick Douglass. Last week we skyped with Marsha Alibrandi a professor at Fairfield University who is consulting on the film. The call was placed on our Lunchtime Leaders Podcast site. The student suggestions on the script have been forward right through to the script writers! The kids hope that after talking to Ms. Weingard that the script will sound a lot less like “old people trying to sound cool.”
There won’t be another blog post with the class from Australia until next week so please stay tuned for that, and we will be getting together with them possibly on May 15(Thurs) at 9:00pm our time, 11:00am their time! Looking for more volunteers–first ten get headsets! Their teacher wrote some very kind words about us after our last get together. We have been very lucky to hook up with this class.
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