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Thursday, February 9, 2012

7 Minutes

Once I read that one of the best ways to hone your teaching craft (or I guess really anything) is to take 7 minutes at the end of every day and write about what happened that day, what you wanted to remember, your thoughts, etc. I try to do this with my blog. Sometimes it takes longer than 7 minutes.

Things are going really smoothly in my room right now. We've all really taken such ownership of the room. It's awesome. Yesterday we had a big crisis because I wanted to read Fancy Nancy's 100th Day book as it was our 100th day (duh!).

When I went to look for it, it wasn't on my desk. My girl Chloe said that she had borrowed it for Read to Self. We looked in her book box, but it wasn't there. For some reason I started sweating like if I couldn't find this book, the day was ruined.

I was crazed, WHERE IS THE BOOK?! Why doesn't anyone in this room care if I find the book?! I fairly hollered it at my kids. They were all madly scrambling to find said book and looking at me like they felt sorry for me. Then I noticed that it was 5 minutes past when they were supposed to be at a special. I lined them all up toute suite and raced them to the special. "Please find the book Mrs. M," they called.

This made me even crazier. Really, you don't even want to know how nuts the whole thing was.

I pulled out EVERY single book in my bookshelf and couldn't find it. So I sat down at my desk and prepared to let it go. Suddenly, for no real reason, I looked to the left and there under a cupboard where my fair Chloe reads during Read to Self...is the book. I grab it and run walk quickly through the halls to the special. I burst in the room and announce proudly that I have found the book. The kids cheer for me. The teacher looks annoyed.

This morning, as a class we decide to develop a new method for organizing the books so that we won't have to rip and tear to find the things we want and need. They were awesome. They knew how to organize better than me! It was fantastic and we all admired our handiwork at the end of the day and celebrated with Raisinets.

5 comments:

  1. I had to smile while reading this post! I would have totally went crazy looking for my book. So glad you found it...and your day could continue as planned. :-)

    ❤First Grade Delight❤
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  3. Oh my, I understand that one track thinking that takes over. I obsess sometimes just like you, over some little thing that I just can't let go!

    Hey, I read that book today for the first time ever. I inferred along with the children about what F.N. would do with the fish tank pebbles. It was fun!

    Dee
    First Impressions

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  4. Ha ha too funny! That totally sounds like something I would do, too.
    Barbara
    Grade ONEderful

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  5. I do things like that all the time. Except I am the one who usually misplaces things. As I am panicking and searching for whatever it is I am looking for, I am screaming in my head, "Why do I always DO this?" You would think that I would learn.....
    -Megan

    First Grade Magic

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