Tuesday, December 14, 2010
a WONDERFUL day in the life of me ....
After 2 years of dedicated service to the Lord, Christopher Alan Boshard will be arriving home tonight at 7:07pm! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!
Friday, December 3, 2010
a TEACHING day in the life of me...
Okay, too funny of a story not to tell.
Today I gave my low reading a class a vocabulary quiz. We've been learning words like contagious, estimate, feasible, infect, expose, courageous, epidemic, resistance, internal and impact. I told them yesterday that there was going to be a quiz on their word today. UPROAR followed that statement. I knew it would. :-)
My students walked into the classroom, saw QUIZ written on the board and immediately began panicking. I think it's so funny that they just refuse to study. I gave them 10 minutes to take it and they all finished. I decided to correct it in smaller groups, so divided up into rotations. This way I could answer questions that they had about the test, etc.
My last group of students rotated to me. This group consisted of 4 boys. While one boy was off doing his thing, I asked the rest of them to please rotate their quiz down one person. When he came back he proclaimed loudly, "Hey! This is not the quiz that I set down." Looking to his neighbor he found his and quickly snatched it back. He then looked at his and said, while handing it back to it's owner, "Here you go Student's Name, just looking out for ya." We couldn't help it. We all started laughing. I said "Student's Name, we rotated them down one. Please give them back. .... pause .... man I wasn't even trying to punk you and it worked." More laughing.
I loved today.
Today I gave my low reading a class a vocabulary quiz. We've been learning words like contagious, estimate, feasible, infect, expose, courageous, epidemic, resistance, internal and impact. I told them yesterday that there was going to be a quiz on their word today. UPROAR followed that statement. I knew it would. :-)
My students walked into the classroom, saw QUIZ written on the board and immediately began panicking. I think it's so funny that they just refuse to study. I gave them 10 minutes to take it and they all finished. I decided to correct it in smaller groups, so divided up into rotations. This way I could answer questions that they had about the test, etc.
My last group of students rotated to me. This group consisted of 4 boys. While one boy was off doing his thing, I asked the rest of them to please rotate their quiz down one person. When he came back he proclaimed loudly, "Hey! This is not the quiz that I set down." Looking to his neighbor he found his and quickly snatched it back. He then looked at his and said, while handing it back to it's owner, "Here you go Student's Name, just looking out for ya." We couldn't help it. We all started laughing. I said "Student's Name, we rotated them down one. Please give them back. .... pause .... man I wasn't even trying to punk you and it worked." More laughing.
I loved today.
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