I’m Done Shucking & Jiving
It should not take snaps, claps, music, phrases, and tunes to get these kids to listen and or pay attention. The attention span of these kids is a -0.
“Please get out your books and turn to page 12” has now turned to…
“BOOM BOOM SNAP BOOM DE SNAP DE SNAP” Clap, once, clap twice. Level O, get ready set.. “open up your books to page 12”… (repeat 3 times) because if you repeat once you’re only going to get about half the class ready to go…..
After all of that…. There’s still going to be 5 staring into space, with no book in sight. I am exhausted with all the chants, buzz words, and so on and so on just for one simple task. I can’t come up with another idea. Sometimes I get out of breath just trying to get everyone’s attention…. I think it’s time for me to move out of elementary… it’s not fun anymore. Maybe I’m just not built for this anymore.
Edit:
For those missing the bigger picture, the phrase has many different meanings. In no way or form am I using it in a racial manner…I am POC myself and in my community it’s been used in various ways.. there’s no need to turn this into a debate and unfortunately I can’t change the title!! There was no intention to offend anyone.