The Plans

Savvy Mom often blogs about her one true teaching love. I too have lost a true teaching love. For 12 years Jayma and I jobshared. A few years back she left me for full time teaching and college money for her kids. The separation was traumatic, but now that I teach sixth graders, we are having a blast of a time once again.
The sixth graders wrote haiku a few weeks ago, so I wrote up a lesson plan for them to use to teach fall haiku writing to second graders. Lesson plans in hand, the sixers paired up with their pals and sprawled out into every nook and cranny. We saw sixth graders clapping out syllables and prodding kiddos to create similes. Falling leaves were compared to dripping rain and flashing cameras. Jayma and I were jumping up and down cheering them on. We get excited about these things. The sixth graders will type up the drafts and help with the hanging of the haiku around the school next week.
I'm trying to decide if I want to review appropriate haiku placement. I laughed today when I pushed a cart into the elevator and found a haiku hanging inside. Forbidden territory for students, but this transgression brought me glee.