Progress, slowly but surely

I sat down at Starbucks today, put my MP3 player into my ears, and began going back over my lit review. I got back in touch with my research and my organization. I had hoped that I would crank out the majority of my Lit Review, but realized I want more research first. I think it was a good thing to put it aside for the summer, but now I'm feeling the pressure!

In other news, I have begun to assess my students' through the TIMI (Teele Inventory of Multiple Intelligences). I also passed out a parent survey to the parents at Back 2 School Night (another reason my brain has been pre-occupied/exhausted.) I'm interested to see what these two pieces of information bring about. My feeling right now is that I will be conducting my research and doing my lit review a bit simultaneously. Surely, I'll be finishing the lit review first, but I just feel I need to be able to switch gears depending on my mood.

Perhaps you should know...

After thought- I should probably tell you all my topic.

It is based on using music and movement with L1s and L2s in the primary classroom to learn academic content and vocabulary.

Ok, now help me!

Here goes... nothing!

Alright, well, here it is, my first blog post. With back to school night coming up on Thursday, I am thinking in terms of survey questions I can attack the parents with. My biggest challenge working in a low income school is getting things returned. I think if I have the parents held hostege at B2S night, I have a pretty good chance of getting them to fill out the survey while they zone out. I've also got a challenge in that I'm working with L1s and L2s for my project AND my classroom is first grade. Of course, I did say in the "primary" classroom, so perhaps I can pull more data if I have other classes fill out the survey. Hmmmmm.

I'm still pretty unproductive when it comes to my Action Research project. I've got to find my motivation! Perhaps after I pull some data from Back to School night I'll get that fire lit. We also just got our API and AYP data, as well as CELDT scores. So I guess I am collecting! I just have no idea where I'm going with it.

So possible ideas I have for survey questions so far are:
* What is your child's favorite subject?
* What is your child's least favorite subject?
* What does your child like to do for fun outside of school?
Do some likhert type stuff with their feelings about all sorts of school subjects.

Ish- help me out here!

Any suggestions would be welcome. Also, let me know the schedule you're working on. I'm feeling a bit lost in the woods here!

On a personal note- just weighed myself... turns out I didn't gain as much weight this summer as I thought! Keep the ice cream coming people!