Week 6?

I feel like its a good thing to not be exactly sure which week we are in during the semester because things start to blend together and we forget how far we have come and how far we still have to go.  Anyway, we had a good week this week as far as our training goes.  We were able to go observe another middle school on Tuesday.  Mike and I went out to frontier middle school and sat in on Jay Anderson's class.  He has a wood shop type class and they were turning ball and cup toys when we were there.  It was cool to see them get it so quickly.  He gave a demo of the way it was supposed to be.  Lead them on the path to the hands on learning and then let them go for it.  Kind of like training wheels.  The students were also working on boomerangs.  It is clever to have the kids do two projects to make up for the fact that there aren't enough machines.  I feel like when that happened to me when I was in school we ended up doing regular book work while all the other kids did the fun stuff.  We all eventually got to do the fun stuff but this way none of the kids were hating the activity.  Its hard to have an action for this one because we aren't teaching yet but I guess we can make sure to do this when we finally get there.