Showing posts with label seating chart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seating chart. Show all posts

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Week 26, Day 3: Getting wild classes back in line.

Wednesday ODD BLOCK SCHEDULE: Atomic theory notes. P Er I O d I C   N Am Es,   Review HW: Intro to Isotopes

We have our schedule for next year. We will leave our 8 period all block schedule and go to a 7 period day with block only 2 days a week.

I made plans with the library media teacher for a computer lesson and a research project next month.  I also  planned into the next month.  Strategic planning ya!

Periods 5 and 7 were given a new seating chart and lost lab privileges for a week due to the grapes incident and the falling model airplane with substitute incident. The kids accepted the new measures as if they deserved them, which they knew they did.

Week 26, Day 2: An even day calm after the storm and a new problem.

Tuesday, ODD BLOCK SCHEDULE: Following my subsitute lesson plan from yesterday but finishing the Nova Kaboom video instead of Scientific American Frontiers Video:Hydrogen Hopes.

Substitute lessons are usually nice and easy and it makes it easy for me when I come back to school after an absence. 


A student from my period 5 class came in to see me at lunch about some missing work.  I asked how things went with the sub yesterday.  He said some kids were not working and some throwing things like erasers and that one of my plastic models (a 1/72 scale F-16) was broken and hidden in a drawer. 


Grapes thrown and smashed last Thursday in period 7 and now Hooliganism in period 5.
THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT LET KIDS SIT WHERE THEY WANT.  

Because of earning high grades and nobody failing at semester, I allowed these 2 classes to make their own seating chart.  It was a bit noisy  but I let it go anyway.  This is my reward.  I have to say that period  1 and 2, my two early morning classes, have managed pretty well with their own seating chart as did my period 8 Honors Science Class. I did not allow my period 4 kids to make their own seating chart.  Period 4 is one of the best behaved.  I have learned my lesson.
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