Even though this week was a 4 day week because of the Labor Day holiday, it was the most stressful yet.
On Tuesday I had a student get injured while on the playground. She was playing with a group of kids on the slide, and someone fell on her arm. She came to me and said her arm hurt and had some tears, of course. I asked her to move her arm and I gently touched it to see if I felt anything odd. She moved her arm and everything seemed fine. I had her sit beside me for a few minutes to make sure she was going to be alright, and then asked her if her arm felt ok. She said yes, so I asked her if she wanted to go back out on the playground and play. She said yes, and that was the end of it.....so I thought.
The next morning when I got to school I found out that the little girl had to go to the emergency room for x-rays on her arm, and ultimately have 2 pins put into her elbow.
I was sick at myself all day because I somehow felt responsible. I did not fill out an accident report or notify a parent of the accident - it completely slipped my mind. However, in my defense, I asked the little girl a few times throughout the day if she was ok and she kept saying, "yes ma'am."
Let's face it - accident's happen. I now know to call or notify a parent if a student complains of a headache, stomachache, or even sneezes too hard. Better safe than sorry, right?
This week (and the week before) in 1st grade we learned:
-adverbs (how, when, where)
-addition
-subtraction
-how to write a sentence composed of a noun, verb, and adverb
-basic idea of classifying animals
-accidents happen
Here are a few 1st grade funnies:
One of our journal topics for this week was "A Pig at a Party." The kids had to write the sentence "My birthday is ______." Then they had to illustrate a picture of a pig at their birthday party.
One student decided to draw a pig boo-booing all over her paper...
She had to re-do her entire journal entry (and I kept the boo-boo picture for myself).
I had a note from a parent on her child's progress report to please call her regarding a test grade. This parent is wonderful - always stays involved with homework and is very supportive. I received the note on Wednesday, and honestly, I have no free time during the day, so I forgot to call her on Wednesday. And I forgot to call her on Thursday. So I made it my priority to call her on Friday. When I apologized for it taking me a few days to call her, she said "It's ok, he said he kept reminding you to call me, but that you would probably forget anyway; you were probably on the phone with that little girl's parent who drew the pig boo-booing on her paper..."
*I use inventive spelling in my classroom - meaning I tell the students to write the sounds they hear when sounding out a word. The only time I correct their spelling is when they write in their journals. If they misspell a word, I write it correctly underneath their word and tell them that if they saw that word in a book or on paper that's how it would be spelled.* (you need to know that for these stories!)
I decided to do some cute crafty ideas for Grandparent's Day. I had a "Super Grandparent" ribbon for the kids to color. They made their own "Happy Grandparent's Day" cards with construction paper (where they were allowed to write or draw anything they wanted). And I painted their handprints on a sweet little poem.
Some things the cards said: "You all way giv me ane thing I wont.", "I will nevr furgit you.", "You mak me smil."
Also, the handpaint was obviously not a good idea...one little boy decided to go in the bathroom, and instead of washing his hands like I instructed him to do, he decided to put blue handprints all over the wall....Yay.
Don't worry, he paid the consequences - he had to clean the walls, change his face on the behavior chart, and was no longer allowed to be the 'leader' for the day.
We teach Health on Fridays. We have been talking about healthy foods for a few weeks now, and this week we had the students create "Healthy Menus."
I put the students into groups and gave each group a poster board. One group was Breakfast, another group was Lunch, and the last group was Dinner. They had to talk together about healthy foods for their meal, and each student had to write at least one food on their poster. They did a really great job with this project - but here's why I can't hang the posters in the hallway:
Breakfast
Breakfast
eg (egg)
biskit (biscuit)
bakin (bacon)
semwich (sandwich)
sirel (cereal)
soushit ................... (sausage)
Even though I have been stressed, I still love going to work every day.
Next week is our 6th week of school - my, how time flies!
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