As I mentioned in previous posts, I am coming to the end of the school year. It feels odd to be winding down the school year with still a month left of service.
Next week my remaining classes will be taking tests so I won't be
meeting with them. I will have one final week with my 10th graders the
following week and then I'll be done. I am trying to make each day
count and do a few new things with my students.
A
few weeks ago I assigned a project to one of my 10th grade classes. I
still needed to check their reading and speaking skills before giving
them their final grades and I decided to try to be creative about the
manner in which I would do this. Over the course of my time here I have
collected quite a few postcards to surround the United States map in my classroom (thank
you to Mom and Dad, Aunt Ginny, Simone, Elizabeth, Vicki, Ona and
everyone else for sending them). I let all my students choose one of
those postcards and then asked them to prepare posters to present to the
class about the subject of their postcard.
The
class did a great job sharing a little bit about the US cities and
states on their cards. My favorite was the Chicago poster with drawings
of hot dogs and deep-dish pizza on it.
So my classroom is now adorned with some lovely posters that I
can enjoy for at least another week, but only after I assured them that I
would give them back at the end of the year because they wanted to keep
their postcards as an amintire, keepsake, of me. They kill me with their sweetness.
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