A day in my Shoes

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This is what my Friday looked like yesterday:

5:50 alarm goes off and I hit the snooze button.

6:00 I get up and shower, get ready (in jeans because Friday is spirit day at our school YAY!)

7:00 my husband and I leave for McDonald's the breakfast of champions.

7:30 we get to school and I survey my room with my nonfat late in hand. As I do so I realize that I totally forgot that I have to take my fifth graders to our kinder reading buddies! Which is totally not what I had planned for Friday... So scrap the plans and start fresh. Hmmmmm..... As I stew over what to change in my schedule I am tuning on the Elmo and projector (don't be jealous that's all I have, no smartboard to play with *sigh).

7:55 the kids start filtering in. They have a science prompt on the board from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science as part of our push to bring up our science scores. They do the prompts in their morning work journal then pick their centers for the day and read silently. I like it quiet what can I say...

8:30 After announcements homeroom is over and we switch for first period. Our fifth grade is departmentalized with 1 teacher teaching all fifth grade math (my hubby!)for an hour each, 1 teacher teaching all fifth grade science for an hour each, and two reading/language arts/social studies for two hours each.

8:35 I do my mini lesson about nonfiction text structure on the carpet (yes really, they LOVE it) and decide that this is the perfect opportunity for group work!

8:50 I have them break into their new literature groups (that they haven't met with yet) and give each group 4 old time for kids magazines, a piece of sticky note chart paper, scissors, glue sticks, and markers. Their mission was to find an example of each nonfiction text feature and text structure. Then paste and label each on their sticky chart paper. I know, pretty good for an improve right? During this time I had them practice THINK before you speak which I got from pintrest.

9:50 Leave for Kinder Reading Buddies. They are pros at this by now. They go right to their assigned spots and get to work. Kinder buddies read their books and then fifth buddies read a book the kinders pick out until its time to go.

10:30 We leave and I pass out run/walk club cards (exercise program we do on Fridays for resource) along the way.

10:35 By now the kids are dropped off and I can go get more coffee and use the restroom YAY! Then by the time I hang up their stickies, do attendance, and send lunch count over the computer I have to leave to pick up the kids.

11:05 Collect the cold children and take them to the restroom. Then it's back to the room to warm up with some quality read to self time.

11:24 Leave for lunch. Drop them off. Shove food into my mouth.

11:52 Pick the kids up and take them back for the switch to second period.

12:00 I get my homeroom back and we go over the morning work and do a KWL for the rock cycle which I thought was what the national geographic kids magazine we were going to read was about....but it's ok we didn't actually have time to read it either....

12:30 Reading class starts and we repeat what I did with first period.

2:25 They pack up and are out the door.

2:30 I have the joy of doing parent pick up which doesn't end until 3:30 because of drama and it's Friday the thirteenth....

Then hubby and I are done! We go home and relax!