This week had its ups and downs but the highlight of the week was a also wonderful reading lesson.  The students are reading from a “textbook” which has many short stories for each theme.  The theme of this unit is problem solving.  Although the students do not particularly enjoy these stories, they are generally compliant.  This week there was an extension to one particular story we did with an art connecting activity.  In this activity  the students wrote about what they saw and how it made them feel with three different art pieces.  They were to look at the piece as a whole, then look at details closely, then reflect and comment.  I had originally planned on the lesson taking about 20 minutes but it went so well and the students were very thorough with their work that it took about an hour and fifteen minutes.  We had a great discussion about each piece and they were very observant and thinking critically.  It was great to see and I loved that they were able to really delve into the assignment.