Audubon Teaching Journal

We had yesterday off for Veterans Day, and just could not bring myself around to write anything.  I did read for classes, but that was it.

Today we make snowmen from clay.  This was a ceramic exercise which should prove to be very neat with lasting mementos that will forever sit on a winter days shelf by prideful moms, and dads.  Our MT taught the lesson to all three 3rd grade classes, and than off they went to create their snowmen.  We were blessed with having four moms in the class to help as our students dutifully followed the steps to make their masterpieces.  Even Leia and myself got to make them.  After Thanksgiving we will glaze and fire them.  
I was very proud of Leia in that she actually picked up a crayfish without getting pinched so that we could clean tanks today.  We both did some binding,  and set up folders of the kids work for the upcoming parent teacher conferences.

The day ended with the introduction of a new unit on measuring.  Kids learned to measure distances today by taking giant steps, and recording the number of giant steps from the classroom front door to the back door.  The class then discusses the reasons why there were differences, and what accounted for them in this exercise.