Day 2 post ConnectEdca

I had so much fun and it was so relaxing and rewarding on Monday, Tuesday could not possibly live up to it! The failure part kicked in. I' m not sure what happened. We had a great pe class then came back to Justine Wilds' presentation on her trip to Antarctica (yes the Justine Susan Eaton talked about on saturday night). It was really good and the children were fantastic! The original plan was to work some more on our engagement web specifically what creativity meant to them. This needed to spread out and it was raining out so we did some catchup work instead and the children lost focus/engagement completely. I did get them on track at 2pm for our class meeting and had great discussions on how to help peers from excluding others on the playground. I didn't have mucH opportunity to try anything from the weekend though I had a different feeling towards the class more positive (praise) and generally more kind and helpful even though the class was falling apart. Tomorrow I go in reinvigorated. The project based stuff has always worked really well so we' ll have a blitz on going about choosing and applying for our homesteads on the praries. I really don't feel as alone as I have in the past. I have my Tweet friends and I feel bonded in our common effort to do our best for the students. Weird! Also weird opening up my issues to the public. I will have to review that.