I decided that since I am a teacher, it would be fun to share some of the fun classroom stories- because no matter where you are in the world, kids will be kids :)
1- For social studies we are studying Europe and I decided to do a classroom activity on the economic reasoning of the European Union (no worries, it was simplified for fourth grade.) The activity went well, and the kids were really into trading and buying stickers. Afterwards, I started to debrief and explain what happened. After a short explanation, I asked if there were any more questions... immediately every students hand shot up
Student 1: When is it time for music?
Me: (Goodness, thats off topic) 5 more minutes
Student 2: Can we leave our desks like this?
Me: (still.. off topic) For the rest of the day we can.
Student 3: Mine question was the same as student 1.
Me: (goodness, did they hear ANYTHING I said???) oh, ok
Student 4: What did you mean by empowered when they work together?
Me: (finally, SOMEONE WAS paying attention)... and I explained...
Got to love the amount of hard work my students put into their assignments |
"Miss Silberstein, when you say Jack AsKeD it sounds really bad". (She did her best to pronounce every consonant and not make the same mistake as me.)
DANG! She noticed! I acknowleged she was right, but it is really hard for me to say it any other way. We laughed and the rest of the students looked at us confused... oh, goodness!
Having fun with a science lesson |
Anyway, after a full day of eager anticipation, I decided it was a good time to bust out my friendship bracelet making supplies and we had a 20 minute activity time. Good thing I thought of SOMETHING! Because my back up was silent reading and the kids would not be so excited about that :)
Setting up for a minute to win it! |
My kids do the same thing when I write stuff on the board....anything that is different than normal and they MUST know right away....All I say is" Ay niƱos, tan curiosos!" HA :)
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