Day Sixty: More?

Today a few of my students started sharing project ideas. By the end of the day, I asked, "I'll give you two options. Would you like to start your projects or help me make snowflakes for the Christmas party?" I think the most amusing part is the student who said "Neither" but sat there and cut and glued with the rest of us. I think they are some pretty cool 3-D snowflakes. I'd like to add a little glitter to them later. You can find the instructions here.

My supervisor and I are toying with the idea of starting a choir or a glee club at lunchtime. Maybe once a week? Eventually I'd like to teach a choir or a music class, but I have to do a lot of work to establish myself there with the students before I can create that class. And it would have to be separate from art and theatre (which starting next year I'd like to separate as well). Thanks to the new testing in Texas, we won't be able to accelerate out students towards graduation. Which is a tragedy. So with two or three teachers we need to create some more elective options to keep the kids interested. So why not add a choir? Oh yeah. I've got to bribe them into singing in front of people.

I used the field trip tomorrow as a reminder to students on behavior. One of my students got suspended this week, so he can't go now. All I said? "Don't do anything stupid."