A Quick Check In

My afternoon school is a science and math specialty school. What this means is that the students all make regular walking field trips to the Coon Rapids dam. They also have Junior Master Gardner lessons and a variety of other enrichment programs. Anyway, today as I was finishing up my fifth grade reading group I said to Tim "We'll have to finish this on Monday"
Tim (not his name) said "My class will be at the dam on Monday"
I said "Well dang!"
Tim "No the dam!"
Hmm, Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting through.

As a post script, this student just finished taking his District progress assessments and his scores jumped by more than 20 points! Hooray. I know student progress is a collaborative effort but I feel pretty good about that and REALLY proud of Tim.