I wanted to go to location 2 today, as per the videos posted yesterday, but the pressure is on to feed the gradebook. So I gave two quizzes today, one on the word wall words (bogus) and the other on the content of the story so far (valid), which quiz was written by the quiz writer yesterday. The rate of absenteeism in this school is off the chart, so I really have to be on the grading piece.
I really wish I would have recorded the three PQA days – had you seen those, you would see why these kids are so comfortable with things. They have heard each of the three targets literally hundreds of times, two of them well over 200 times each, I am certain.
You’ll see that the playing around level was high today, we are learning to trust each other. These two clips are really about just getting to relax with the kids and getting those two quiz grades:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sBXAM47kE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXpqL9qpwB4