Week 2 is live! I am a day behind on my blog for the week because we have been so busy. I feel like I have been talking to the students for a week straight. So..... it's finally time for me to shut up and give some work! We are starting with a textbook scavenger hunt. Most of the classes just barely got going on that today so they will have a lot of time tomorrow and even Friday if needed to finish up.
You may have heard from your students that we are continuing to work on mindfulness. We did some more work in all of classes. We are practicing mindfulness of sounds. We will keep working on that through the week so I challenged them to try it home for a minute or so and see how the do. Parents you can try too! Just find a mindful posture (relaxed but alert) and listen to the sounds in the world around you without judgement) Nothing to it! We also talked about using mindfulness of sound to create SPACE between our stimulus and our reaction to it. So maybe one of you might catch yourself before you have a reaction that is harmful to others or to yourself. The first grades are entered and I am already hearing from some parents. Remember, Pre-tests don't count towards a final grade!!!!!!!!!! I put them in the gradebook so we all can see growth. So you will see those from time to time in the gradebook, don't be alarmed. Students should be failing the pre-test, it means they don't know the information. Which is good, it means I have something to teach them! I will give them a post-test soon to see if they learned anything. There are several students who have not shown their parents the class expectations, that is a 10 point assignment and I will still take those this week for full credit. Thanks for reading, let me know if you have questions in the comments or send me an e-mail. The Instagram has been fun so give me a follow if you can and feel free to leave a comment!
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