Frustration & Fun Week Four is Done!

I HATE MISSING SCHOOL! That being said, this past week I was out Wednesday and Thursday. I had to work on fixing my bus license. I'll still have to miss another day to do the road work now that I've redone my classwork. It's all very aggravating, but when it's done I won't have to worry about it again for a while...I hope!

We went over the whys and the hows of our poetry podcast assignment early in the week, and while I was out the groups wrote their scripts. From what I've seen, I'm pretty excited. I had one group that had to record early, and the audio came out sounding pretty good. I can't wait to see the finished podcasts.

They've had a chance to explore a poem and wrote up a script about the poem and poet. Their next step will be to find images that support their words. We'll record their scripts and sync the audio with the images. When we're finished, I'll post everything on my podomatic site. The first few podcasts you'll find there are actually from short story animations, but if you scroll down, you'll find some poetry podcasts.

We had open house on Thursday, which was nice. I had to rush back from my training to try and be ready, but even that didn't take away from the night. It was fun to meet the parents of so many of my students. I hated that we ran out of time before I had a chance to speak with everyone.

Then Friday we had water presentations. The groups I saw did a nice job with it, and I heard that they all did. I was impressed with their first public, we had guests, speaking assignment. With practice they'll get even better!

We relaxed a bit in the afternoon and watched A Civil Action. The film fit perfectly into the pollution and river studies they had done. I even got more out of the movie than the last time I'd seen it thanks to their presentations.

We finished my rushed week by rushing back to the cafeteria for a special guest appearance. Tina Turner came to perform "Rolling on the River" (Proud Mary) complete with two Ikes and back up dancers! It was hilarious! I'll have to post the video when I get a chance, but alas it is late and sleep beckons! Here's to another great week!