Potluck and More

Oh well, I guess we'll do the potluck at another time - I hear Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are better than Friday! Me too...

We will reschedule. The agenda still stands: ILPs, Fridays, John Ross and his Marvelous Ideas, and concerns and hopes.

Speaking of Fridays we went ice skating today. The kids voted and really seemed emotionally relieved to be doing something "non-academic and not at Trillium", in their words. They are also keen on bowling next Friday to balance out the vote. I am not a fan of either to be honest. And that is why Fridays was on the potluck agenda. More on that later.
My class was wondering why we don't do anything fun.
We have gone to breakfast, Dark Horse Comics, bowling twice, the ballet, had in-house team building activities, two parties, movies (one for Black History Month), OMSI, and now ice skating. The library was boycotted, and an earlier suggestion of the zoo met with groans. They forgot that we also had around 5 Fridays with no school. They rest of the time was spent with buddies or building projects for the very successful project fair. We cleaned for part of one of those Fridays.
All they remember is that Kirk's is the class that cleans!

Why am I saying this? To ask for YOUR help in planning educational and engaging activities. There will certainly be service learning projects, especially as the weather continues to improve. Any thoughts? Send me an email: jkirke2001@yahoo.com

Class lists are finalized and I'll have them at the front desk on Tuesday...with their grades!

Independent learning plans are becoming formalized and put together with the Framework (finally!), and if this sounds odd to you it will be explained in detail in the coming week(s).

Thanks for letting me blog at you,
Kirk