Recipe Box #14 - Zucchini-Corn Casserole
It is amazing that I remembered the Recipe Box, this week. School started, yesterday and I have completely submerged myself in my new class and my new curriculum. I have a group of 23 boys to share the year with and based on only one day, they seem terrific. Usually, on the first day, I can pick out the potential trouble maker but yesterday, I could not. The worst "crime" was calling out and that should stop by the end of the week, when they see, I am serious about it. I threw out most of the learning and concentrated on good classroom habits and rights and responsibilities. Interestingly, they understood responsibility over rights and I want that to change. I explained to them reward is a better way to learn than punishment and of course, they like that. I base my year on reward and earning it. If a class wastes time, it comes out of activity time. Consequences make sense to them and in the past, I have found, the reward is worth u...