28 de abril de 2025
April 28, 2025
I’m a first year third grade teacher. I have a few boys that constantly argue and antagonize each other. They never get classwork done because they constantly have conflict. Their compliants are petty and tattle tale on each other everyday. One time Jim (psydonym) was telling me that the girls were passing notes to each other. I thought to myself, that’s not worth telling a teacher about. I’m glad they are writing to each other though. Third graders are still at the age where they will write to each other. Once they get a cell phone, all they will do is text. This gave me an idea. What if I made those boys that tattle tale on each other write their compliants to me on post its or sheets of paper.
I tried it today. I made boys that never write in class, write their compliants and gripes. When they brought it to me, I corrected their grammar usage and punctuation. Jim wrote “making fun Steve and Matty about brokn fence.”
I asked Jim, ” Who is making fun of you?”
“Steve and Matty.”
Put the subject in front of the sentence.
I told him to rewrite the sentence as “Steve and Matty are making fun of my broken fence.”
Jim fixed it. I got four boys to write formal complaints about each other.
You might say I made them go “Karen on each other.”
I have to trick my students into practicing handwriting and compositional writing. This was absolutely worth blogging about. It’s the little wins at this job that I have to appreciate.
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