February is here.
This week's big thing is going to be the introduction to ANCIENT CHINA! Yeah, we're doing a Chinese New Year thing on Tuesday. Seeing as it's, you know, Chinese New Year. Perfect timing, y'all.
Monday is either farewell to Africa (maybe) or intro to Asia. I'm thinking maybe we play some sort of game? Where we attempt to identify parts on the map or follow command cards? With teams? Yeah, something like that tomorrow. With the Africa map. I wanted to have the Asia map ready to go this week. I was planning on buying it from the Waseca people at the conference, but they didn't come! So now I'm in trouble. I guess I order it, but that means I won't have it until mid-February. Nice. Way to mess up my monthly plan, Waseca people. Geez.
Tuesday we're having a New Year's party. Ish. It'll be fun. We're going to make Chinese dancing dragons, fireworks and lanterns. On Wednesday we'll do a timeline thing. Thursday and Friday Kati will be doing some biome intro - mountains and tundras.
We didn't do much writing at all last week, so this week we're writing. Writing is something I need to get more on top of with my students. I know that some of them think writing is optional? Yeah, not so much. Especially the older kids. Buzz commented that the kids coming up are not strong writers. I aim to change that.
Finally, I figured out this week that I got a raise this year. A pretty big raise. Somehow I'm making $30,000 gross. Where did that come from?! I'm not complaining, but now how much am I going to ask for when I ask for a raise after finishing my certification? $34K? Settle for $32K? I don't know.
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