Week 13 (PDS Reflection)

Again this week was only a four day week since we got Monday off for Veterans Day. Students were very energetic and talkative this week because of Monday off and the following week being the Thanksgiving Break. Thursday and Friday students worked on a scale project that I put together for them. Friday was also a crazy day, students had an extended first period then an attendance reward at the end of the day so we had seventeen minute classes.

Week 12 (PDS Reflection)

 This week was only a four day week since Tuesday was Election Day. On Monday students reviewed for their second test, Tuesday there wasn't any school, Wednesday students took their second test, and Thursday and Friday we went over ratios and rates.

Week 11 (PDS Reflection)

  This week, due to the snow and power outages we only had school on Monday, so it was a nice week. :)

Week 10 (PDS Reflection)

  This week students had an early release on Wednesday, also on Wednesday the 7th grade students went to  Fairmont to go to NASA for a presentation. I went on the trip with the students and also rode the school bus with them. It was an interesting experience to see the students outside of a classroom setting. Some students really surprised me with their behavior on the trip, both in good and bad ways. I was also surprised that I was the only staff member that rode in the back of the bus with the students and I was also the only staff member to sit with a student on the bus ride.

Week 9 (PDS Reflection)

 This week was a shorten week at school, Monday was an ISE day so I saw none of my students on Monday. Then the rest of the week we had to change my original plans since we did not get everything accomplished the previous week. We continued to work with integers and equations. Students also worked with special equations (perimeter, area, d=rt)towards the end of the week.

Week 8 (PDS Reflection)

With the schedule change last week, this week was crammed pack with lesson and a variety of topics.   Students also started their WACs (Writing Across the Curriculum). Students did not want to complete their WACs, they felt it was stupid but it is something that is state mandated and we have to have the students complete them.

Week 7 (PDS Reflection)

 This week all 7th grade teachers had to rearrange their schedules for the end of the week. On Wednesday the 7th grade class went on to Pittsburgh to see the Pirates play a baseball game, on the way home the buses got caught behind a bad traffic accident on the interstate and the students did not return to Grafton until after midnight so the principle told the students they did not have to come to school tomorrow if they return with a note from their guardian on Friday. On Thursday we had a total of fifteen 7th graders, those students that went on the trip told their friends that did not go that they did not have to come to school on Thursday so there were only a handful of students that came to school. All teachers had to scrap their plans for Thursday since there was such a lack of students.