Had great success with partner tag today: One person is “hungry”, the other is the “food.” They chase each other around the room (only fast walking allowed). Once you’ve been tagged you spin around 3 times and go after your partner while they run away. Energy booster! Also wanted to say thanks for all the contributions and words of encouragement—it really helps. Katie From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rogers.dr Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:05 AM To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ola] Re: second day and question For the journals, we go by number, title & date (for ex: #10, Syria, 10/9). They are responsible to write that on every entry (whether theres one or three to a page) clearly & visibly so they can find it quickly. Circling the number so it stood out helped even more! Enviado desde mi iPhone El sep 5, 2013, a las 10:16 a.m., JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx<mailto:joannac@xxxxxxx>> escribió: Today my students filled out a student information form that I do every year (age, name, interests, how they did last year in Spanish, contact info, etc...) - for Monday we are going to start talking about interests and likes/dislikes, so I am pulling the info from their sheets as the vocabulary that we will be learning :) Question about the journal: if I am handing out some handouts (calendar, songs, etc...) and kids are writing notes and homework in their journal on a daily basis, how do you all keep things organized? I can't really number pages because kids write bigger or smaller or more or less, do you number entries? just go by date? I want them to be able to quickly find certain entries - thanks! JoAnna Coleman Spanish Teacher Wilson High School 503-916-5280 ext. 75231 joannac@xxxxxxx<mailto:joannac@xxxxxxx> http://profecoleman.wordpress.com/ ________________________________ From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] on behalf of Jody Soberon [JodySo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:JodySo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:57 AM To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ola] First day HELP! and awesomeness Hi! Yesterday was my first day of classes. Every class went as planned, was awesome and responsive and then 7th period, a Spanish 2 class with 38 students, came on. They were excessively chatty, in English. And there are about 8 students who are the disruptive type and talk out in English a LOT, 3 of whom just really don´t care. We only achieved half of what we did in all other classes and got no vocab up, though we did in every other class. 5 were sent out of the circle for a minute, 1 was sent out of the circle and then outside the class for a minute twice! So it looks like I am going to have to debrief TODAY with them and not during English days/week. It can't wait. My thoughts: -Have a discussion about trust and decency -Talk about the effect of breaking out into English which switches the brain. Somewhere I heard that research says that it takes 7-8 minutes to get back to before the brain switch. Can someone hook me up with that research? I also plan to go over consequences including what one of the members of my PLC shared with me. It is a Debrief behavioral sheet that the student has to fill out. I'm going to try this for students who have to leave the room for disruptions or incesssant English. The doc itself is in English, but if I can nip bad behavior in the bud in the beginning, the whole class will benefit. (I've attached it for your perusal. In other thoughts or comments? Thank you and happy OWLing, Jody Foreign Languages Brookings Harbor High School