Spelling Bee. Not enough room for all students to attend, and most think it is something exciting, or at least something that will remove them from class. We get a nice memo saying if we take students, they stay for the whole event, so as not to disrupt. I figure, no problem, not taking students, so the quiz is a "go". Today they announce no changing of classes until it ends....2 hours of the beginning of the day shot.
Not completely, though, because my homeroom like to play games. One game is the number guessing game. Like 20 questions, but we shoot for beating our record, which is 8 questions to guess a number between 1 and 100. They are getting much better, but there is always one or two who don't pay attention to what has been asked and get heckled by the others. In between I broke out the multiplying fractions cards. Each has an "I have" statement and a "Who has" question. After a bit, all the kids had scratch paper out and were multiplying fractions and whole numbers....Tons of practice for them, easy for me, and they even said it was fun!
The end of the day class remains an issue...the period is always too short, the kids are a handful and will sacrifice themselves to disrupt the class. Still, they took the quiz and handed in their projects, which went up without a hitch. One boy, not even at our school a week, did the most amazing thing. He drew a very well done Spider-Man, shaded in....but the areas with the angles he labeled, he circled and left white. Just amazing. There were some others that were also excellent, but that one took the cake.
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