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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has problems with lice in their classrooms. This is the 1st year that its become a problem. The students with lice are still coming to school, and my school is not doing anything about it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hello - I'm wondering when teachers start using the metric system with their science classes. Does this begin in elementary school? I am particularly interested in temperature - celcius versus fahrenheit. Thank you!
by Dan Hoffman
Sep 4, 2011
Does anyone know how to convert Promethean Board to Smart Board and not lose a lot of information.
by Susan Sarnes-Flis
Sep 5, 2011
Hi. I'm new to a fourth grade class. Need some great ideas on teaching map skills and the history of New York. Thanks.
by Elisabeth
Sep 10, 2011
My 4th graders are looking for penpals. Let me know if your class would like to correspond with us. Thanks!
I need phonemic awareness activities for grades 3-5 other than Debbie Dillar or Florida Center for Reading Research.
If anyone can recommend activities/websites I would REALLY appreciate it!
Thanks, NB
Hello out there, Just wanted to pass along a resource for planning purposes... There are great lesson plans and resources for teaching reading comprehension strategies on the Read Works website... Definitely worth checking out!
I teach 4th Grade and it's my second year. Yesterday afternoon I had this student who couldn't seem to sit still in her seat. I wondered if she needed to use the bathroom, so I asked her if she needed the girls' room pass. She said "no", but I could just tell by the look in her eyes that she not only had to go but that she was really desperate to g...See MoreI teach 4th Grade and it's my second year. Yesterday afternoon I had this student who couldn't seem to sit still in her seat. I wondered if she needed to use the bathroom, so I asked her if she needed the girls' room pass. She said "no", but I could just tell by the look in her eyes that she not only had to go but that she was really desperate to go. At first, I just told her to take the pass and go anyway, but she insisted that she didn't have to.
At our school, through 3rd grade, they have individual lavatories attached to each classroom. But starting in 4th grade, they have to use the communual multi- stalled lavatories in the hallway. I kind of suspected that having to use the hallway girls' room might be the problem, so I wrote out a note to the nurse explaining what the problem was and saying that my student needed to use the more private lavatory in her office. I then put the note in the envelope and asked her to deliver this note to the nurse for me. Everything seemed to have worked out fine -- the nurse offered her the use of her bathroom and the girl was able to use it and she came back to class looking a lot more comfortable. I'm pretty sure she has urinated in the hallway girls' room before but I suspect this was the first time she was needing to have a bowel movement in there.
But now suddenly a get a not so nice e-mail back from the nurse informing me that her bathroom is only for students who are ill and that I'm not to send any more students to her just to use her bathroom. She tells me that my student needs to learn to use the regular girls' room in the hall from now on like everyone else. And she sent a CC: to the Principal!
Am I missing something here or was that e-mail from the nurse totally uncalled for? And the CC: to the principal makes it look like I don't understand the simplest of procedures. I understand where my students are supposed to go the bathroom, and I understand what the nurse's lavatory is for. But at that particular moment I was trying to avert a mini-crisis and save that little girl from an embarrassing accident. Sometimes children have issues with school bathrooms -- I had issues myself when I was her age and even older -- and I'm perfectly willing to help her work through them so she can use the regular girls' room in the future. But at that particular moment, the poor girl had an emergency and I needed to find a way to deal with it at that moment. And at the moment, having her use the nurse's bathroom seemed liked the best solution. I don't think having her sit in class and probably mess in her pants would have solved anything.
Was I wrong? And what do I do the next time she (or perhaps another student) is desperate to go but afraid to use the girls' room. What is the harm in having her use a more private bathroom until she gets used to the other one?
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