The day of the sick people

Today was a day for the record book. Out of the six team members from Earth House three were absent. Maggie is on bed rest, Dunlap is on maternity leave and then Siskow had to leave before Core becuase her daughter got sick. The day was a little crazy becuase of the high temperatures and the kids getting excited for the end of the year. I ran our class in the library and had the kids do a webquest on the 1940s with half the class doing one part and half doing the other. On Friday they will meet and go over the answers. The rest of the class was work time for their projects which most kids did not work on very hard- so I am not crazy about giving them an extra week without any consequences. Tomorrow is progress report day and we do not have any new grades to add so it should be easy. Today one of the kids said that I should get a job at Crosswinds because I was a good teacher, and then another kid agreed and it was nice to hear. Over the past three weeks I have noticed that my relationships with the kids have grown and I have taken on more of an older sibling roll then a teacher roll. We are getting along better and I haven't had to write up any of my problem kids in a while. Today I also planned a field trip to go and see Hairspray on August 2nd. We will be walking the two miles to the theater and back. They were only showing the movie during hours we couldn't go but I talked the manager into showing it at a time convenient to us so that we could come. I made the permission slips and Siskow copied and got them out to the other teachers but forgot to get them to me so our first class will have to get them tomorrow. Not much else is happening right now, I am writing the Friday lesson plan that Siskow will follow while I am on the field trip and I am thinking of murals, maybe.