Oh. My. Goodness. Where did my summer go? I am sitting here on the couch on my last day of summer. Tomorrow I return for my first day of in-service. Who starts in-service on a FRIDAY?? Who does THAT??? and more importantly... why did the school district to that to us?!?! ugh....
I know I sound like I am complaining.... well yes.... I am complaining but not about starting school! Just in-service on Friday....but I AM really excited to start this school year off! In fact I am pretty stoked about teaching one subject (SCIENCE) and working on getting all my tweaks out from last year and trying out new labs and all sorts of finds on pinterest :)
Which brings me to my latest find.... clock partners. Last year I had my students keep the same table partners for 9 weeks, and usually if they did partner work, it was with the person they sat across from. It became boring fast, but I didn't want to let them just go willy-nilly and go around working with anyone they chose. We all know what happens when we do that! Nothing.... except talking.... about what happened last night.... not about what we are learning. Ugh. 6th graders.
So I saw something on pinterest about Clock Partners. The students pick who their partner is at each time slot and they make sure they are on their partners clock at that same time slot. This will be perfect during the first few days of school, especially when we are setting up our Science Notebooks. So today I made my own Clock Partners worksheet. We will fill it out, color it,cut it out and paste it somewhere in the front or back of our journals. I usually don't decide where to place things until the day of. So if you would like to use it, it's all yours! Click here for the Clock Partners worksheet! You can also see more of my files to share in the green tabs on the left.
Enjoy your last few days.... hours.... minutes.... of sweet summer time!
