It's Almost Over!

As a student, I remember thinking that the last few weeks/days of school were a waste. We watched movies and played and learned very little. As a kindergarten teacher, that was not the case in my class. Oh, we had fun, but I was assessing and teaching right up until the end. The last two days were cleaning and packing things, but even then we did some learning activities!

4th grade is a bird of a different color. All of the testing is scheduled to be done by the end of the day Monday.....which gives me 9 days where I have covered every required objective and have no set goals we have to meet. The kids know this! There really is no reason for them to want to do work after next week....its not going to affect them if they are lazy. I can't really give graded work the last week because the information has to be entered into the computer in time for report cards to be printed. So I'm faced with a FORCED week of fluff. Movies, games, extra recess and crowd control are my job for the last week of school. I will try to squeeze academics in where I can, but seriously....they are checking out on me at an alarming rate.

And just to make things more entertaining for us all.....throw in 150 fourth graders, one week of school remaining, lack of attention span, and summer fever.....mix it all together with FAMILY LIFE class for 2 days and what do you call that??? CRAZY! I have to talk about puberty and body changes with 4th graders at THIS point in the year? Who's dumb idea was that? I wish I could video tape it for your viewing pleasure. Just saying the words "family life" made the kids giggle and make crack comments.....what are they going to do when we split all the girls and boys and actually TALK about these things? Eish!