September I don't even know when!

I decided to ditch the date titles and go with real titles.

Today is I don't even know when because it's only the second full week of school and I feel like it should be December! Someone stopped me in the halls and asked me about yesterday- something like "how did it go yesterday" and I honestly couldn't remember why she might have been asking me something. I don't know if I'd told her I was doing something particularly cool or if I'd told her I was worried or had a problem. I really couldn't remember yesterday! Scary!

Planning is consuming me like it did my first teaching! However it was super cool in class!!!
So I used doctopus successfully four times today- little warning, it takes a good two minutes to send emails, so you have to time it well. ALSO (for whatever reason) it sends two emails to the kids. 1. saying they have sharing permissions on a file. and the other saying with the assignment- sort of annoying, but...

IT WORKED!!! It worked and was beautiful! I could also open the group files to watch as they worked on the sentence race. Then they each had a part they had to work on and I hope that the files kept all the information with six people working on them. But the cool thing is, is that you can use these features, even without Chromebooks. You simply need to take them to a computer lab or library. It's super amazing to watch them all typing stuff together and talking to each other at once.
I have a visually impaired student this year and I wanted to make sure he'd be able to take part with his group. Luckily, after forty minutes of playing, I figured out why his Google Drive app wasn't working. I hadn't given him the right file type. It won't let you edit word docs, you have to paste the information into google docs. So once I figured that out, the Google Drive app worked perfectly! It's really important for me that he be able to do everything along with the class.

It's bizarre to me that I might not be carrying much home ever. I have a lot to grade now, but I have no grading folders, so it makes me feel like I have nothing to grade! HAHA if only! Oh the life of a teacher! Have to get to work! Adios!