I've plotted out my teaching plans for the week. Friday is a field trip: yay for Despereaux! The movie looks as if it is loosely, loosely based on the amazing book. Tuesday we're training for the writing assessment through a moodle put out by DPI. Wednesday I must test them on the poem I'm having them memorize. Thursday I'm having a writing exercise and a research treasure hunt in the library? I want them to have fun, but I don't want to lose instructional time. And, I have no idea why I'm fixated on them learning the parts of speech, but I'm determined my students will come out of 7th grade able to recognize a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, and conjunction. Prepositions and interjections... I'll set free. But, I think they'll latch onto those ideas too. Why are we teaching essays when my kids don't know the parts of a sentence?
We're studying West Africa in Social Studies-- we should get through the physical and history quite quickly. I want to spend time on slave trade and kente cloth. My kids are digging social studies. I need to go by Mary Joe's and get some different cloths.
Don't be jealous of my exciting life.
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Hey you! I have West African cloth and any other "stuff" if you need visuals. OF course, besides Kente cloth, there's also the indigo dye pits of Kano that make purple-blue cloth. Their fabric gives Tuareg's their nickname, "Blue Men of the Desert." Also of course, wax Batik. I love you're blog. I'm not just saying that.
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