Willeke was driving again today so I had the two grades…and of course all of the kids were there. Loud crazy day but we made it through. I asked my assistant to give the second grade a spelling pretest to see if they knew the words (-ck words). If they know them all we can skip them and continue on. When I walked in to check on them he was doing the wrong lesson! So I corrected that and then left again to keep 1st grade on task (as if that was possible). I went back in a little later and he had written the words on the board—WHAT??—when I asked he said that it is no problem, he erases the word and then has the kids spell it when he says it. oh dear. But then as it turns out I don’t think it made much of a difference to the tests as we definitely need to do this week’s lesson.
The other new thing we gave them were homework packets…ahh remember the days when you were excited to get homework because it meant you were growing up! When I passed it out I had to explain what was in it…a letter for the parents (explanation of this packet and future ones), a bible verse to be memorized (this week is Genesis 1:1—read the creation story for our bible time this morning), the list of spelling words, and math worksheets that correspond each day to the worksheets we’ll be doing in class. all to be turned in on Friday…we’ll see how that goes…
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