3rd day solo, part 1

Today I am dividing the day's events into two separate posts. Something major had happened at the end of the school day and I want it to shine on its own.

The 5th graders are continuing to work on their Doodle for Google. Some students still needed to come up with 4 different ideas and others were ready to begin working on the Google logo. I was attempting to motivate all these students to move beyond the point they were at so that they may begin working on the logo. I must have been being pretty intense, as Ciarra had asked me if I was mad at her, which I told her I wasn’t. But at the end of class as students were lined up, Ciarra wouldn’t look at me as I was giving Gotcha’s to the students. I found that as Ciarra was leaving (she was last in line) that she had tears on her cheek. I may have been too hard on her, which I talked to her afterwards about. I provided her with extra Google logo worksheets to do at home.
The 4th grade class is sooo needy. Brandi attempted to = manipulate me into doing her work for her. Because I wasn’t she was getting angry. I walked her through the steps she was suppose to take, and would walk away – she would then have Mr. Holland do the same thing. I finally helped her do some drawing after she made a stencil, which earned me a brilliant smile (motives never more apparent at that point), but it got her to complete the next step; she was making the design on the wing. Before she could transfer it onto her poster, class was over.
The 1st grade class was beginning their pop-up houses. On the rug during my demonstration Isaiah was getting upset with Angel (and neither of them would quiet down). I sent them both back to their seats, which Isaiah didn’t like at all. I had them come back when they were to work on making their pop-up. Isaiah continued to get irritated and negative. I had Mr. Holland walk him to Ms. Smith. I talked to Ms. Smith later that day to see if I needed to write him up and we decided no, and that he just needed to decompress a bit.