I have been thinking about starting this blog for a while, if you consider "a while" to be since December 1st that is. It certainly feels like a while! I have had no less then 20 great blog post ideas and moments that I wanted to share in that while.
What this blog post could have been.....
1. Not the first day I taught MinecraftEdu, I was too dazed and overwhelmed to form a coherent thought!
2. The day that one of my 6th graders came up to me with tears in his eyes and softly said, "I love this class", and I replied, equally teary and equally softly, "So do I"
3. The day an Ender Dragon spawned out of nowhere and swooped through our World Religions world causing chaos as students stepped up to destroy it, and then a whole class discussion about if we should just quit without saving the world because that might be easier then trying to fix the destruction.
4. The day I came back after having a sub to find that one of the students had killed another student's horse and stolen the saddle, and the class discussion about community and respect that was spawned.
5. Every day that something has sparked an amazing whole class conversation about something I never could have imagined or planned for.
6. The day a student told me she had gotten MinecraftEdu for Christmas because she loves the class so much.
7. Telling the students that our next unit would be recreating a scene from the book Bud, not Buddy, hoping that maybe, I could plant a seed and they might start thinking about the assignment and then having a student come in the next day and tell me that she had already started building her scene at home so that she would know what to do when we started working on it in class.
8. After our math week learning area, perimeter, and volume having the 6th grade math teacher tell me that one of my Minecraft students had raised her hand in class to ask when they would learn about volume because she enjoyed it so much in Minecraft.
9. Getting used to the noise, because a Minecraft class is loud! Kids collaborating, planning together, partnering, asking each other for help, offering suggestions, and generally being excited and loving what they are doing is loud!
And of course today, when I overheard a student talking to a friend as he left class, and he was saying "This class is the reason I come to school". I wanted to say, me too kid, me too!
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