It was picture day at the Angier School today! We all had our picture taken, and every student who remembered to dress up, did so from the waste up - nothing but athletic shorts on the bottom. Why? PE today! About half of the boys wore navy blue polo shirts - it was like a memo went out to parents suggesting that shirt for a classy picture. The day started out freezing - which of course is when our pictures were taken - but ended up being close to 90*.
The students came back from recess in the late afternoon drenched in sweat (in their business on top, gym class on the bottom outfits) and completely hyper. Awesome - just in time for me to give a spelling assessment. Ask me how many students out of 24 didn't talk during the test - seven. They were even bribed with extra recess if they were good, but the pressures of the weather, a half hour left of school before the weekend, and just all around 10-year-old energy got the best of them. So, only seven students were allowed to go to recess while the rest were given a guilt trip by Ms. Wink.
I worked with the student mentioned in earlier posts on his challenge ticket tracking during recess. I taught him how to use Excel to calculate ever changing totals of tickets into percentages. He was super impressed and happy to know that he had to do a lot less grunt work than he was thinking. Thank you Excel and your magical equations!
I stayed after school to correct the spelling assessments. At this point, students are supposed to get only 2 wrong out of 50. Seriously? I probably would have only gotten an 80% as an adult! Some of these words were tricky!
After those were corrected, I drove down town to hang out with my friend Amanda. We grabbed Thai food and went to her house to see if Oprah had been Tivoed. Sadly, it hadn't, so we didn't get to watch Cory Booker accept $100 million dollars from Mark Zuckerberg - founder of facebook. I did however get to hear their voices over and over on NPR on my ride home. I love it when good things happen to my friends, and they in turn do good things to help others.
Governor Chris Christie, Oprah Winfrey, Mayor Cory Booker, Mark Zuckerberg.
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