It has been another busy week here in Platinum. Classes are starting to fall in place for everyone. Planning isn't soaking up as much time and the students are starting to get back into the swing of things.
This past Friday was out Back to School night. We invited all the families to come out an join us for a meeting and then dinner to follow. I got to introduce myself to the parents and meet a few first hand.
The elementary kids made story scenes about their families and shared them with everyone. The kids were really nervous and most mumbled, I guess they don't like the spotlight.
The meeting took place in the elementary classroom. After the meeting was dinner in the cafeteria but I was hoping the students would bring their parents down to my classroom to take a peek. I don't think anyone went down, we were all waiting to eat!
Here are some more pics from my classroom
This was our history project this week. Each student chose a region of Native Americans and drew about their region, making a pretty cool collage.
I've been waiting very patiently for this. It should be set up sometime this week.
This is our VTC unit, how students take a video course from the district central office. This allows my high school students to take an Earth Science class and lets me focus on just junior high Life Science.
The cleanest my desk has been since the beginning of the year.
This week, instead of having school, the district is flying everyone to Bethel for more teacher training. The kids are pretty happy and it is a nice change of pace.
Coming up later this week, a video of the house I moved into yesterday.
