A Long, Long Monday Morning

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Today is the SLIME TIME day postponed from Friday. SLIME TIME, as you might remember from my last post, is part of the Laser-Light Show Dance Party fundraiser. While the Laser-Light Show Dance Party was a huge success – gross receipts exceeded $20K, which means the school should net over $12K for the purchase of technology for the school – today’s SLIME TIME is turning out to be quite a distraction and a disruption of the day’s lesson plan.

Knowing that today was going to be a crazy day, I kept my lesson plan simple. My homeroom, which is my first period class, covered the opening sections of the Chapter on Motion and Momentum. We discussed the difference between distance and displacement, speed and average speed, and covered the variations of the distance equals rate times time formula. Then we watched a short video on motion and force. The video was followed by a quiz.

The lesson I just described took up the normal amount of class time I usually have with my classes. Since the whole school usually watches an in class news program following the first class, and since the Principal decided not to show the news program today, I logged into the website that broadcasts the program and showed it to my class. Watching the news program and discussing the stories on the news took us up to the time the students would normally go to Curriculum Enhancement class. That, too, was cancelled, so I had to find something else educational to do with the group. Because the class had showed such interest in the news, I called up another current events site and we listened to a short recap of what made the news the prior week. We spent several minutes discussing these stories.

After the news programs, we still had an hour before the beginning of SLIME TIME. Luckily, there was a video lesson I had planned to use to review the Five Senses at the end of last week, but didn’t have time. Having this extra time this morning gave me the perfect opportunity to let my first period class see and discuss this lesson.

There is still the question of what I’m going to do with the students who are not eligible to go outside for SLIME TIME. I suppose it will depend on who stays behind and how many of them wind up in my room.

As always, I remain,

The Exhausted Educator