The Triumphant Return

Monday the 16th marked the return of our newest member of the class, little Dipshika. She had been out all last week do to surgery required to remove her tonsils. yeesh!

But the day remained a very fun one, as the kids continued the art projects they had begun Friday, and a little math project was done up by the board. Ms. Aerisolphal had a bunch of number cards ranging from 1 to 29. First, she asked various students whether the number she was holding up was a "teen". If it was, then that student was to go and pin it up on the board where they think it might belong if that board were a number line from 10 to 19.

Once the number line was set up, various students took turns mixing up the cards and having the rest of the class guess on what about the cards had changed.

That's when I had a great idea.

After the little number line game, while all the kids were back in their seats working in their math books, I quietly snuck up to the board and replaced the 12 with a 21.

It took only a few minutes for bright little Aidan to quietly point it out to Ms. Aerisolphal. So, after math time, Ms. Aerisolphal let Aidan inform the class of his observation, and then let the class puppet Heidi the Moose, complement me for surprising the class in the name of learning.

All in all, the day turned out great. The kids are beginning to write multi-sentenced papers, and their math problems are getting more and more complex. Soon, they may be even smarter than me!