Monday, April 27, 2009 Joseph starts with J. Adam starts with
A... I have six, six year olds in my classroom. Some of them are
6 1/2+. Four of these older third and fourth year students are
boys. The majority of these boys can read, write, do word
problems, money problems and much, much more. Because of their
abilities, they sometimes get restless and a little too silly.
But, they also LOVE themselves and everything that has to do
with THEM, which is typical of a six year old boy's ego. The
other day when I was working with my youngest student and the
teen boards, I simply could not concentrate as the older boys
were so silly. I excused myself for a moment and went to where
the boys were "working." "Please put this work away. I have
something very important that I would like each of you to do," I
said with a mysterious smile. They immediately cleaned up and
where standing next to me in a matter of minutes. "What work do
you have for us, Miss Dyer?" Joseph asked. "I would like each of
you to get a dictionary a