The Wind is blowing like a Banshee

Mixed bag today.

I was missing a couple of students first period. Friday's are usually game days but they got me off talking about mountains of snicker bars in the nearby warehouse distribution center for 7 11s in Northern California.. McKlane. Every day hundreds of trucks leave Merced with palates on them for 7 11 stores in Northern California. My students did not know what a palate was. So they learned about two kinds of palates.. the wooden kind and the soft palate.. back near the alveolar ridge. From there we got into lo boys and fork lifts.
The second period came in ready to play. Their favorite game is 5 second hold em. They have to hold the answer they know for 5 seconds before verbalizing the answer.

The other school had a IEP that was close to schedule. The student is a daughter of a 3rd grade teacher in town. It was nice to meet her. She was pretty happy about her daughter's progress.

Lunch time is always a riot with the boys and girls of the TOTS.. the other table.

The worm game.. a version of the milion dollar game show was on tap for the 5th period class. They had a great time with "Mr. Brown" words which are always the easiest on the board. I pinned the TAs with tough questions and saved the toughest ones for the the para. He is always up for the challenge.

Sixth period was spent working on a visual organizer for a "to do" list for this weekend for each of the students.

The student body had a multiculture day with food from all of the clubs for sale.

It was a good day but it took the starch out of me to be "on camera" most of the day.

: ) pat