This is a funny title. It is not an analogy at although nor is this a deep post about students with different races or cultures.
Instead, I am really just thankful for my 2nd block class. My other two classes this week had lots of issues and caused me to have to replay negative interactions over and over again because it is hard for me to not keep trying to think of what I can do differently. So not that I am not reflective about how to improve, but this blog is for me to focus on the good.
Anyway, I am THANKFUL that despite all the other stuff, my 2nd block students were SO sweet to me and to each other this week. All week, I did not hear ONE complaint, whine, or see any eye rolls. They did not complain that I was teaching anything new. They did not need me to tell them that I was still the teacher in the room. They didn't complain when I said they may have to take their exam with no review day. (that will only happen with missing school Monday with the dreaded "wintry mix")
To top it all off, I have a student who is colorblind who did not complain once about having to learn chromatic number. Why would he complain? Well you have to color different graphs to learn different graphs' and scenarios' chromatic number. For example, they colored the map of the U.S. to see it only took four colors (which is the chromatic number). He took it in stride and just kept asking his friend time after time, "what color is this?" He made it a big joke which was good because it freed me to laugh (at first I felt horrible and said he could just a color name.
Another highlight was two other students loved this activity so much when they finished their test review they asked me to print them ANOTHER map to do. So I printed Africa. They asked how many colors they needed and I said I don't know. To which they said, "oh a challenge!!" They then raced each other for one of my starbursts. I gave them both a prize anyway for thrilling me by talking about how much they liked it. I am also thankful other students didn't whine by me giving them candy. Those two students then convinced me to give my colorblind student a starburst too. I did. Note: these two mentioned students are NOT overachievers normally!
Then today they took their last test. Four students like to write me little comments throughout the test. This makes me happy. One said, "I am really going to miss ur class." I know, I know "ur." I really miss these students because they make me smile while I grade.
Another student, super smart (this class is way to easy for her), told me not to worry when I said I hope the class hadn't bored her. Instead, she said yes it was easy but I liked the neat labs.
Although this is just a random post of small occurences these tiny things kept me sane this week so for that I am thankful!
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