Project Week

This week at school we did not have normal classes. We were out of school Monday and Tuesday, and the rest of the week was project week. Each class spent 3 days preparing different projects that they would share with their parents and the rest of the school today.

I was with my 5th grade class because their project was the only one in English. The students had 5 skits that they were going to act out for their parents. Each skit had 2 casts, and on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I took one of the skits to a different room to work on their line memorization and their pronounciation. As precious and cute as 5th graders are...I could NEVER teach them. It is too much like babysitting. The students were fighting over a stuffed monkey because that was a prop in our skit...and I mean literally fighting like pulling hair and screaming and all that. It was annoying...like I said, I could never teach them.

Today was when they performed their skits for their family and my kids did really well! They came in costume and remembered their lines for the most part and did a really good job, so I was really proud of them. Plus, it was fun to see all of the parents and see which kids belonged to which parents. The way it was set up was that 11 one cast from each skit performed, and then there was a break and at 1215 the other casts acted out the skits again. I sat through all of the skits at the 11 o'clock viewing, but after that I walked around some. The 7th grade had completed an alcohol-awareness campaign and my students had beer goggles and obstacles set up in their room, they had also completed some posters about the risks and dangers of binge drinking. I really enjoyed going into their room and seeing what they had done and hanging out with them some. Then I went into my 8th graders' room and they had done a little dance project where there were different styles of dance, I didn't stay in there very long because those students I don't know as well. I realized that my 6th graders' "stomp show" was going to clash with my other cast of 5th graders, but I had already seen my 5th graders a bunch so I decided to go watch the 6th graders. Those kids are precious too...and their show was interesting, they didn't speak in their scenes but made beats with pencils and their feet and newspapers and stuff. Luckily, my 5th graders skit was the last one in the line up so I was able to make it to see my other cast perform...and they did so good!

As annoying as it was to go to school on a Saturday, it was really interesting and fun and I'm glad I was able to go and see my students. Now, I have to write a bunch of lesson plans...fun.