Fifth Grade Friday

Shock of all shocks - I got called for a job today. And I'd already had 1.5 days this week! It was an afternoon in a fifth grade. The kids were pretty chatty but okay. They did pretty good during work times at actually working and staying mostly under control. It was the transitions that they were horrible at. They just took forever and couldn't stop talking. But that's survivable. A little annoying, but survivable.

At the end of the day I had a different group of kiddos for ELD (English Language Development). The teacher had told me that they were an energetic group. So right off the bat I told them that if they were good listeners and we could get through the lesson quickly, then we would play a game at the end of the day. This worked fabulously, and they got about 8 minutes to play "Four Corners" - a game where one kids closes their eyes while the others go to one of the four "corners" of the room. Each corner has a number. Then the kids with their eyes closed calls out a number and all the kids in that corner are out. Then everybody moves around to a new corner and the kid picks again. You keep doing that until only one kid is left and they get to be the next guesser. They had fun and it made the end of my day easier. :)

Oh, and Rhonda - a "pull-out" is a term lots of the schools use to refer to music, pe, library, counselor, etc. - anything where the kids are taught by a different teacher and the classroom teacher has prep. In essence, the times when the kids are "pulled out" of the classroom. Although this isn't entirely accurate because most people use this term for counselor visits as well even though usually the counselor comes to the classroom not the other way around. Sorry for not explaining! You don't realize how much lingo you're using when you're around educators ALL THE TIME! haha