The Day Before March Break

It has been a sprint to the finish line but the week ended wonderfully. We finished the afternoon with one of my favourite activity of the week! Students consolidated their learning about Phases of the Moon by carving oreo cookies to represent the different phases. It was a lot of fun and with some questioning we really "assessed" the essential learning in a brief fun, hands-on way.

This week was not "typical" in any way. But what weeks are? Many "interruptions" peppered the week including, lice and dental screening, co teaching and planning sessions and school spirit events. Embracing them as just part of school life was one of the important things I took away from the week.

We did a fun poetry lesson concluding in having students choose their favourite title from a list of possible titles and discuss why they chose it. Some students even had time to create their own title. I shortened the lesson to cover 1 poem instead of 2 to accommodate the timing but all the important learning from the lesson were covered.

My commitment for the two weeks after March Break is for me to generally talk less. No matter how engaging what I'm talking about is or how many gagets and gizmos I've included or how many great questions I ask, I realize more and more that meaningful learning must be student driven.