Isaac Newton: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Is anyone else impressed that I have blogged 4 days in a row? I'm impressed with myself, but it's been easy because this week's been one for the books.

To start, you should know that I started my day with a dead car and a AAA "battery specialist" who says my battery is "the most corroded I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of batteries." Score. This totally makes up for the fact that I never got a superlative in high school.  

$111 and a ride to school from my mom I arrive at school, only 45 minutes late, my kids in the hands of a sub.

Anyway, at my school, we're required to do a literacy strategy every month to help our kids learn to read or something...I guess that's important.  Anyway, this month we were supposed to teach them to be more fluent readers.  Digging back to my elementary days, I decided a Reader's Theater (aka reading a story like it's a script) would be a good time.  So I find one called Newton's Apple. Perfect.  Isaac Newton, Reader's Theater. Done.

Here is a selection of the work:

Isaac: The Earth is attracted to the Sun. The Sun is attracted to the Earth. The flowers, the dirt, the seeds are all attracted to the Earth!

Catherine: I'm attracted to YOU Isaac!

Isaac: Of course, Catherine! Everything is attracted to Everything!! The stars are attracted to the Earth, the Cosmos are all held together by gravity!

This was the best decision I've ever made as a teacher.  I have never seen SO many kids SO embarrassed.  Poor Catherine just throwing herself at Isaac and he doesn't care.  They all wanted to die.  I wanted to die laughing.  Also. A few students decided to throw in a British accent for good measure.  I will tell you, you ain't heard nothing until you've heard a kid from Bourbon County do a British Accent.

Then we went on to discuss the idea of genius, since Isaac Newton was one.  I asked the following question.

Me: Who do you consider to be the greatest genius of all time?
Student: LARRY THE CABLE GUY!
Student #2: Yeah. That Get-r-done line gets me every time!

What is the world coming to? I was expecting some Darwin's, maybe a DaVinci, I thought they might say something like Oprah or President Obama.  FALSE. Larry the Cable Guy it is...

Peace, Love and Blue Collar Comedy,
Claire

Also, for those of you who were wondering, Owen pulled through the loss of his claws like a champ.  According to the vet he is loving his life in a drug induced stupor.  I get to pick him up tomorrow.  I'll be real, it was bizarre coming home to an apartment without him in it.