T-shirt Mania

Domain:
Order of Events:
Help with bfast, mom pulled kid out b/c she 'doesn't pay for bfast', students obviously hungry.
8:30 Seat work: Coloring page
8:50 RR
9:00 Model fluency passage, explain procedure for each week, "Well Wishes"-An Irish Toast, asmt on Friday, Some earned Penalties-plus one for arguing.
I finished w/ student t-shirts.
Art project: Visor and school bus.
Throughout morning I worked on taking student pictures for each center.
11:00 math (I left)

1:00-5:30 Student teaching meeting

B. Elaboration of Significant Episode
Today we got to do a fun activity, to help decorate our room. My teacher bought small sized t-shirts and we decorated them with puff paint. I pulled this kids aside one at a time and told me how they wanted their shirts decorated. I was the only one to use the puff paint so that the students were mess-free. We wrote their name and decorated with stars, hearts, ying-yangs, footballs, baseballs, etc. We let them dry and then hung them up on a closeline by our outside windows.

C. Analysis of Episode
Our routined class will start next week, until then we are learning procedures, starting seatwork and fluency passages, and easing into the routine by doing some artwork. Making the designed t-shirts was such a fun idea. It was so good for me to get to know my students individually. I got a kick out of on of my older boys, who just moved to our school, who requested a barbed-wire fence with a boy climbing on it. Everyone else had wanted simple starts or hears, possibly a baseball. Our "new" student seemed to be trying to prove himself to the others. I had turned down one request for a skull, but compromised with the barbed-wire fence. My student wanted that because he said he was "hardcore." Most of the other students did not even realize what was on his because they were too busy admiring their own t-shirt. Hopefully our new student can "prove" himself by applying himself to academics and becoming "hardcore" with his classwork. Only time will tell...