We dissected a sheep brain. I love it and tend to forget how exciting it is to the kids: I've done it four times now. My first class was fantastic -- leading a lab was a new challenge and it worked well (I don't have a science class, I teach in a normal classroom = no sink nor appropriate science equipment). I led my second class to a science room and we did the same thing, but it wasn't quite as fun. One girl really did not want to do it, which is fine, but she ended up crying in the corner, and one of my eager kids pulled out a tooth during the lab. It was both disgusting (clad in brainy gloves...) and hilarious to me. "Go to the restroom, wash out your mouth, wrap you tooth and put it in your pocket. Come back and we'll resume" popped out without thinking. Oh, and my mentor teacher was observing the whole thing until she was called away unexpectedly for a family concern.
Then lunch and the afternoon full of College Day prep, photocopying onto Papermill's Astrobryte collection (aka blinding neon paper that is color coded to correspond to the correct stations at t UMiami campus). We are almost done with the planning... and have killed several thousand trees.
What exactly am I planning? 75 sixth graders exploring UMiami campus in 12 chaperoned groups. I'm assigning about 15 Teachers, coordinating the scavenger hunt and 7 locations, lunches, buses, and more. So grateful for my other co-director -- he's been a pleasure to work with and we've been productive.
It's all tomorrow. I must sort through all the paper (several inches of photocopies to distribute tomorrow).
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