Sometimes it is boring...

I spent a fair amount of time working with children of all ages, but most time with middle schoolers lately. I have been with one system for three years and the students know me well, I have very little issues of any kind in the classrooms. This makes the work easy and even boring sometimes.

Today was one of those days. I was working with a couple of groups of very high functioning students, I handed out the assignment and they worked diligently for double blocks (120 minutes). They needed no help from me, and there was no discipline issues or off-task students, and early finishers sat and read quietly. This makes for a looonnnggg boring day for me. Of course it didn't help that I forgot my glasses, making my own quiet reading difficult. So time seemed to ooze by slowly, what seemed like an hour was actually only four minutes. I did get to help a few with a couple of "hard" words like stenographic, verbatim, and pedagogical.

The good news is, I get to do it all over again on Monday with the same group, I hope I remember my glasses and a good book.