Getting excited...

I have been spending the morning writing my lesson plans for the week. I am SO excited. My students are doing some really exciting novel extension activities this week. They have been doing such a great job reading the novel and I do not want to simply give them a test and move on. Instead, we're going to make some neat art pieces and have the novel 'come alive.' I hope they enjoy actually doing the activities as much as I have enjoyed planning them. I'm pretty sure they will. I'm very fortunate to have students who are not opposed to doing more creative and artistic projects. They recognize the value in doing these sort of right-brained things in the classroom and rarely do I get an attitude when we attempt to do seemingly 'cheesy' things. This is very fortunate for me, as I ooze gooey melted cheese in the classroom and my students know it.