Today started out with this strange game of ‘Pass the Grumpiness’; but it was thankfully pretty much gone by 1^st cash-in.  A did PHENOMENAL during reading instruction today.  OH MAN.  He’s getting so much better, both actual reading as well as his reading attitude.  We read a story about a kid who wanted cookies and did crazy things to get them, and then he was even willing to do a story map on it.  Not just ‘I’ll dictate to you, you write it down’…he wanted to do some of the writing, too! And (for him), it was done really neatly!  I was kvelling!

                I then realized around 10 that even though it’s testing week for the 5^th graders, I DID have somewhere to be at 9.  OOPS.  I stayed with AB from 10 – 11:30 to make up for missing my first half hour.  He did awesome, too.  Kinda silly at some points (he was also CRAZY fixated on Wyoming’s state bird while we were working on his research project), but even though he was kinda unfocused and some of the work was hard, he was able to get it all done before lunch so he didn’t have to miss recess.  That made him feel excellent, and I did, too.

                Lunch I sat w/ A, until I saw D and E with trays leaving the room.  I reminded them they needed a grownup with them, so they asked me to go and I said I would, but that before they could go to recess, they had to bring the trays back.  Had some good lunch talk, and then at the start of recess, E asked if they could wait and I said no, and he took it.  D was much more grumbly.