Creatively Learning
Yesterday was a pretty great day overall. Both girls had me laughing so hard at different points. Trying to focus on those moments and not the frustrating ones. Not easy at times.
RILEY
Riley had three different zoom meetings. The students have found ways to create different backgrounds that can be used in Zoom. Riley found one and then took a screenshot of herself with the background. Since you can use pictures of yourself for a background, she then used this screenshot of herself for the background. What this means is that if she puts that picture up, it will appear to her teachers and classmates that she is there with them in class, but if she wanted to go wander off and do something else in the background no-one else would notice. Sure, this isn't the best use of her time and no, she hasn't actually used it in a class (not yet to my knowledge anyway). But the thought that she was creative enough to figure out this 'trick' and to think of how hilarious it would be to see her picture in a classroom setting cracked me up. Would we, as teachers, notice? Made me wonder. She said that the only thing she was worried about with it was if she was called on to answer a question because of course, it wasn't really her 'being' there.
JULIA
Julia began reading chapter 1 of Little House in the Big Woods for her english assignment. I asked if she wanted to read it together and she did. So we snuggled in her bed to read just like we do at night. I asked her if we wanted to trade off pages or paragraphs. She wanted me to read the whole thing, but since it was her assignment to read we decided to trade off paragraphs. Julia wasn't really in the mood to read so instead she decided to sing her paragraphs. And depending on what the words described she switched between minor and major keys (though she didn't know this). On the words 'Ma' and 'Pa,' she sang them opera style in very high pitches. For the word 'squealing' she made squealing sounds while singing it. Sometimes she even repeated a phrase for emphasis and used her arms to make dramatic motions. It took us over 20 minutes to read 23 pages, but I figured we have all the time in the world so why force her to just read it? We talked about the meaning of some of the words she didn't know and the characters.
One of Julia's assignments from her soccer coach (Coach Orlando) was to practice drills, but as it was raining all morning we couldn't go outside. Instead we cleaned out the upstairs room and used the orange cones. She taught me how to do some drills between the cones and then we played a game of indoor soccer that was hilarious. We kept knocking over the cones and twice I knocked over the little Christmas tree that was on the side. Once we ended up kicking the ball down the stairs. Julia ended up winning our game 10-9. I heard her share about it with her class on Zoom this morning.
RILEY
Riley had three different zoom meetings. The students have found ways to create different backgrounds that can be used in Zoom. Riley found one and then took a screenshot of herself with the background. Since you can use pictures of yourself for a background, she then used this screenshot of herself for the background. What this means is that if she puts that picture up, it will appear to her teachers and classmates that she is there with them in class, but if she wanted to go wander off and do something else in the background no-one else would notice. Sure, this isn't the best use of her time and no, she hasn't actually used it in a class (not yet to my knowledge anyway). But the thought that she was creative enough to figure out this 'trick' and to think of how hilarious it would be to see her picture in a classroom setting cracked me up. Would we, as teachers, notice? Made me wonder. She said that the only thing she was worried about with it was if she was called on to answer a question because of course, it wasn't really her 'being' there.
JULIA
Julia began reading chapter 1 of Little House in the Big Woods for her english assignment. I asked if she wanted to read it together and she did. So we snuggled in her bed to read just like we do at night. I asked her if we wanted to trade off pages or paragraphs. She wanted me to read the whole thing, but since it was her assignment to read we decided to trade off paragraphs. Julia wasn't really in the mood to read so instead she decided to sing her paragraphs. And depending on what the words described she switched between minor and major keys (though she didn't know this). On the words 'Ma' and 'Pa,' she sang them opera style in very high pitches. For the word 'squealing' she made squealing sounds while singing it. Sometimes she even repeated a phrase for emphasis and used her arms to make dramatic motions. It took us over 20 minutes to read 23 pages, but I figured we have all the time in the world so why force her to just read it? We talked about the meaning of some of the words she didn't know and the characters.
One of Julia's assignments from her soccer coach (Coach Orlando) was to practice drills, but as it was raining all morning we couldn't go outside. Instead we cleaned out the upstairs room and used the orange cones. She taught me how to do some drills between the cones and then we played a game of indoor soccer that was hilarious. We kept knocking over the cones and twice I knocked over the little Christmas tree that was on the side. Once we ended up kicking the ball down the stairs. Julia ended up winning our game 10-9. I heard her share about it with her class on Zoom this morning.
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