One Week Left
For someone who loves to write, I'm a terrible blogger. In other news, school is over in one week. My third(ish) year teaching, and my first year teaching in the States.... over in one week. Maybe it feels this way because I spent most of third quarter sitting in coffee shops and waiting for my water pipes to unfreeze, but this school year FLEW by. We finally finished reading The Hobbit in 7th grade! It took almost two months. I split the reading, so we read a chapter in class together, and they read a chapter on their own at home. I found that some of the students LOVED it and are asking to read Fellowship next year, while some wanted to die the entire process. I think they enjoyed the story itself, but have never read a book that's meant to be savored like an Italian cappuccino, instead of chugged quickly like a Starbucks Frapp. While we read, we made lapbooks. I've seen elementary school teachers do this, and it's becoming a popular project in the homeschool...