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Quick entry.
Jan. 16th, 2004 09:44 pmI'm dead on my feet (well, bum, since I'm sitting at the computer), so this will be a short entry.
First off, huzzah for the weekend! A nice long weekend, too, as we get Monday off for Martin Luther King Jr's birthday.
This has been a long, drawn out, tiring week, what with starting up the new reading groups and all, but a really nice thing happened yesterday that considerably brightened my day. I was talking to another reading teacher who now has 3 of the kids from my previous upper-level group, and asked after them. Evidently she had told them to write a paragraph about their prior groups - did they like the teacher, what did they read about, which book was their favorite, etc. - and one of my kids said the sweetest thing. He wrote that he loved being in my reading group, and all the science we did, and that his favorite book was the Rocks and Minerals one we read.
Dude. I mean, rocks and minerals. You wouldn't think most kids would get such a kick out of reading about such things, but we read that book months ago and it stuck with him. That really made my day.
My new groups are just as great. In one, we just started a book on the Spanish shipwreck Nuestra Senora de Atocha, and they seem really into it. I took my compass in and showed them how to find direction, and we learned how to tie a few basic knots. I'm going to try to find some sort of boat/flotation experiment online so we can look at what makes ships float and why they sink. Should be fun :)
As for my own reading activities, I started The Silmarillion last week. Is most amusing how much Tolkien's account of the creation of Middle-Earth resembles the book of Genesis *g* This is good info, though. Really adds to my understanding of The Hobbit and LOTR.
Am also watching my Band of Brothers DVDs again. Still love them just as much as before (many hugs to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cimmerianwillow and her mum for giving them to me), but as always I both happily anticipate and dread Episode 7, where there is much death and dismemberment (no, really, even more than all the other eps in which there is war and death...which is, well, all of them), and where I will weep and sob in quite an embarrassing fashion over the boys of Easy Company.
Oh, shut up. Go watch it; you'll cry too.
Ok, so this turned into a not-so-short entry, didn't it. I'm not always terribly long-winded in real life, but give me a keyboard and I'll ramble like the proverbial babbling brook, if that's not mixing metaphors and similes and proverbs. Sleep now. Reply to comments tomorrow.
First off, huzzah for the weekend! A nice long weekend, too, as we get Monday off for Martin Luther King Jr's birthday.
This has been a long, drawn out, tiring week, what with starting up the new reading groups and all, but a really nice thing happened yesterday that considerably brightened my day. I was talking to another reading teacher who now has 3 of the kids from my previous upper-level group, and asked after them. Evidently she had told them to write a paragraph about their prior groups - did they like the teacher, what did they read about, which book was their favorite, etc. - and one of my kids said the sweetest thing. He wrote that he loved being in my reading group, and all the science we did, and that his favorite book was the Rocks and Minerals one we read.
Dude. I mean, rocks and minerals. You wouldn't think most kids would get such a kick out of reading about such things, but we read that book months ago and it stuck with him. That really made my day.
My new groups are just as great. In one, we just started a book on the Spanish shipwreck Nuestra Senora de Atocha, and they seem really into it. I took my compass in and showed them how to find direction, and we learned how to tie a few basic knots. I'm going to try to find some sort of boat/flotation experiment online so we can look at what makes ships float and why they sink. Should be fun :)
As for my own reading activities, I started The Silmarillion last week. Is most amusing how much Tolkien's account of the creation of Middle-Earth resembles the book of Genesis *g* This is good info, though. Really adds to my understanding of The Hobbit and LOTR.
Am also watching my Band of Brothers DVDs again. Still love them just as much as before (many hugs to
cimmerianwillow and her mum for giving them to me), but as always I both happily anticipate and dread Episode 7, where there is much death and dismemberment (no, really, even more than all the other eps in which there is war and death...which is, well, all of them), and where I will weep and sob in quite an embarrassing fashion over the boys of Easy Company.Oh, shut up. Go watch it; you'll cry too.
Ok, so this turned into a not-so-short entry, didn't it. I'm not always terribly long-winded in real life, but give me a keyboard and I'll ramble like the proverbial babbling brook, if that's not mixing metaphors and similes and proverbs. Sleep now. Reply to comments tomorrow.
