I found monsoon season

I mentioned in a previous post that monsoon season had yet to arrive. Don't worry I found it. It arrived almost two weeks ago and has even unpacked it's bags to stay a while. I was planning to go for a power walk tonight, but canceled due to an oncoming headache. Thank goodness I did; I would have been really upset getting my baby blue Nikes wet.

Right before vacation my 4th graders started unit 5: How much is it? Yesterday was my unofficial official day back to school and it was not only filled with a full day of class, but me actually teaching. To start class, my coteacher first reviewed the previous units where I then took over and picked up where we left off in unit 5. To start today's lesson I showed a Talk Talk Talk clip, which is a 2 minute video of a role play on the book's CDrom. The clip included two sets of friends; two young boys who wanted to buy a kite and two young girls who wanted to buy a doll. This particular part plus the students reaction absolutely cracked me up. The clip begins with the two girls hovering over a table looking at various items to purchase. One girl is gazing looking at various object when all of a sudden her eyes widen as she says, "It's so pretty!" The video then quickly jumps to a doll laying on the table. GASP from students. The gasps and comments from my students didn't stop at the initial sight of the doll, but continued as the video slowly and creepily zoomed in. The doll from the video basically looked like the doll pictured below except it had long disheveled strawberry blonde hair with bright blue crazy eyes. When I first saw the doll I didn't think much of it, but as the day went on and the fact that every, and I mean every, class either reacted by gasping and screaming "TEACHER, CHUCKY!" or all of the above I started to realize these students were on to something. Don't worry I handled the situation by telling my students it was not Chucky, but instead his sister.

This Sunday my friends Lisa and Leozanda attempted to spend the day relaxing on a boat, but instead somehow ended up on a six minute speed boat ride. Needless to say I was not ready for that situation and basically had a panic attack the entire six minute ride. A few minutes into our speed boat ride the captain quickly turned and said, "camera." took two photos and was back in his seat driving speeding away.

The behavior charts seem to be a HIT! All classes are up to par and know what is expected. For some reason the students were really impressed with my artistic abilities and even applauded me while chanting, "Bravo teacher!" This made me blush.