Week 18 -- Move-up day, leading assembly

Demonstrating "Mystery Person."

This was an unusual week in a few ways. First of all, between the holiday and the ice day, it was quite brief. Second, Thursday was our annual “Move-Up Day,” during which everyone is temporarily promoted to the next grade level and spends the day in the appropriate classroom. Our sixth graders all became seventh graders and joined Karl and Rachel upstairs. In their places, we welcomed visitors from Chris and Spencer’s classes and made them honorary fifth graders. It was a novel way to spend the day, and everyone got a glimpse of what next year might look like for them.

Finally, our class led the weekly all-school assembly on Friday, and planning it took most of the small chunk of homeroom time that we have on Wednesday. For this assembly, it was decided that the kids would organize and run everything, and that I would be completely, 100% silent for the proceedings. (Apparently, I spoke a little too much at the last assembly we were in charge of. Ahem.) Assemblies are partially intended to give a view into the happenings of each classroom, and our class decided to spotlight two things. The first was Sana’s S-K myth (accompanied by an interpretive play), and the second was “Mystery Person,” which is a brief, collaborative game that we regularly play at the end of the school day.

Meanwhile, our math group met twice this week. On Thursday, we combined with Sam’s math class to play math games with our guest students, and Friday was devoted to work in our Singapore books.