Groundhog Day - 6 more weeks of winter

So it's Groundhog Day. Again. At B.T. Washington art classes are labeled as Specials in each grades' school schedule. Students are rotated between art, music and P.E. One third of each of the grades go to each of these three areas. Because B.T.Washington has a self-contained specials department and is a 2-strand school (general and bilingual classrooms), the Specials are the only time during the school day that students in the bilingual program, gifted program, and general classroom are integrated within the same classroom. I have mentioned in my 1st day of student teaching that the schedule is set up so that we see a third of each grade level each day, which means that when I plan a lesson I will teach it three times. This is why Mrs. Carey refers to the repeated days as Groundhog Day's, a direct reference to the 1993 film starring Bill Murray where he plays a weatherman living the same day over and over. So if I mention that it is groundhog day when its any day not February 2, this is what I am referring to.

On the topic of Groundhog Day, see the official site for Phil. He says we will have 6 more weeks of winter. Boo!