it's really february already?

this week's entry is going to be a bit abbreviated as i'm trying to recover from an icky cold. but, exciting news! i reformatted some aspects of the blog to make it more robin-ish and now have a functioning link to some photos. 

MONDAY
planning day. yup. learned some wilderness skills: building a fire and making rope.

TUESDAY
morning...6th grade. went well! enjoyed discussion and systems activity.

4th grade. polluted water (using vegetable oil, food coloring, leaves and soap). hooray! came up with good solutions to clean the water.

1st grade art. c-r-a-z-y.

5th grade. water cycle review. much better than last week!

WEDNESDAY
felt like poop in the morning.

a moose visited preschool (aka i dressed up as a moose named alice. the scientific name of a moose is alces alces). amazing fun! afterward we made moose hats : ) great time.

kindergarten...lesson was okay. all the students wanted to do was make purple water.

lunch and recess (played basketball with kindergartners as much as you can actually play basketball with kindergartners).

2nd grade. animal charades. fun times. short lesson.

made a bee costume! hooray!

nature club = success.




THURSDAY
still not feeling great. 3rd grade morning meeting. learned some sign language.

1st grade lesson on pollination (focus on bees)...went alright. the students really enjoyed the waggle dance at the end (the way bees communicate the location of flowers).

5th grade art and 1/2 grade recess duty. good times : ) played hide and seek with a kindergartner and a 2nd grader. fun times!

lunch.

kindergarten art class. adorable. the student i worked with put a big afro on his collage snow person (not intentionally. it was a relatively large piece of paper that vaguely formed a circle around the top of the head). that made my day.

3rd grade lesson on bottled water...was alright. it was fun to do a taste test.

helped drama club make posters and stood in for one of the students who was absent.

FRIDAY
ugh. woke up feeling a bit better, but as the morning wore on i started to go downhill and decided not to go to the winter enrichment day we were leading at colrain central school. i really wanted to go, but i didn't think it was good for me to go. i worked to catalog some of the books in our library and also reformatted some things on here. then i took a nap for 5 hours.

hopefully i'll feel better next week...