When things don't go as planned

We had a sub for the morning, and his name was Mr. Pudsey. We called him Mr. P. - Cam H.
When the substitute teacher was here, it was pretty fun. - Dylan
At lunch, so of us went to soccer intramurals, but there was only three girls there. - Robyn
It was our turn on the new play structure. - Jacell
After lunch, we did Tumblebooks in the lab. - Joey
When Mikayla and I were doing Tumblebooks, we had to log off as soon as we got on because lots of people were trying to get on the website. - Marie
I was so excited to do Tumblebooks because we hadn't done it for a long time. But as soon as I logged on, it wasn't working. - Braylin
After recess, in Music we got to watch a movie called 'Pink Panther'. - Jenna

After being sick at home yesterday, and at a meeting this morning, it felt really good to get back into the classroom this afternoon - I really missed my students! I had planned to have the students go on the Tumblebooks website, and listen to reading (one of the parts of the 'Daily 5'), while I worked with students one-on-one. However, when we got into the computer lab and tried logging on to the Tumblebooks website, we encountered a whole host of problems. We kept getting messages telling us that there was too much traffic on the website (which I've never seen before), but then one student figured out that if you clicked the back button on the browser, and then the forward button, that you were often able to get on to the website. When only about half of the computers were able to get on to the website, another student suggested that they partner up, and unplug the headphones so they could both hear the stories being read. When the speaker on one computer wasn't working, the students working on it suggested they simply read the words together on the screen. It was great to see all the problem solving going on! It was a good lesson for the students that even when things don't go exactly as planned, they can still work out... just differently!