I love having the kids come in and I was especially excited about the lesson I was giving, a PowerPoint introduction to Cynthia Kadohata's book, Weedflower, which tells the story of a young Japanese-American girl who has to relocate with her family to an internment camp during World War II. I used photographs from the era, including some from the Library of Congress collections, and it had been fun to work with historical photographs again.
The seventh graders were all away on a field trip today, and I had just a few eight graders come in during their lunch/recess period. In the middle of this pleasant pause during the busy day, the sound of a wonderful clarinet solo came across the hall from the music room. Being so close to the 5th/6th grade music room, I get to hear all kinds of music during the day, but this was especially wonderful. "Who is playing that beautiful music?," I asked the kids. "Oh, that's Mrs. D.!," they replied with admiration. Mrs. D. is the 5th/6th music teacher and sure enough, it was her, trying out a new piece she had found for one of her students. As I chatted with her, another teacher stuck her head in the door and said, "It's so nice to have music at lunch." Indeed it is.
I was pretty impressed with just how many notes were in this piece of music!
After lunch, I was amused by the sixth graders who made themselves comfortable during the "silent" reading portion of their time in the library. I don't usually allow students to be quite this comfortable in the library, but their teacher had promised them that they could lay on the floor in their classroom to start reading their new class novel. I caught the spirit as well, and was rewarded by seeing them so engrossed in their library reading.
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