Well, you can see by the time that I have been working like a crazy person. I'm as tired as the two dogs in the picture. By the way, you have already met Georgie (black and white dog), but Pearl is her adopted sister. Pearl came from the Chicago English Bulldog Rescue. She was almost dead when Barbara got her. She was about 12 pounds underweight, had mange, skin infections pussing everywhere, ear infections, eye infections, paw sores, etc. As you can tell from the picture, Pearl is now very healthy (and beefy). But enough of that. (I do need some real grandchildren, don't I.)

I finished my last lesson. Yeah!!!!! I feel as though I put together some good stuff (probably not as good as Chris and Deb could have done, but good anyway). I'm excited to share on Tuesday. I spent a bulk of my time putting together guided reading questions to go along with five video segments. My remedial reading kids need listening skills as well as content information, so I created questions for them to answer as they watched the video clips. It may not sound like a big deal to some of you, but I am not kidding when I tell you that my students have serious listening problems. Many of them are ADD or ADHD, so having them listen to these clips and follow along will be a challenge. I tell them in the directions that they can go back and re-listen to the clip if they need to. The clips are all high-interest, so I think this will be successful. I will know more on Monday about all this because I am going to try a different lesson with my students then. I am going to be doing clips on date abuse (NOT abuse of fruit). I have the LCD projector already in my room, and I am going to stream the clip because it worked well on Friday after school when I ran a test on the whole procedure. Both of the two lessons that I have referred to come with teachers' guides through Discovery Education. I will be using some of the materials for the lesson on Monday. Like I said, all of this can look good to me, but the test will be whether or not the kids get into it. Stay tuned, and Tuesday I will tell you.

Enjoy tomorrow. Monday is coming way too soon.