Here's just a quick note about something funny that happened this week in class. This past Monday before school, I wrote this week's Bible verse on the board. My kid's know to get out their Bible notebooks and copy the verse down first thing. Accidentally, I had also written morning instructions right above the verse. So Friday, when my students had to recite their memory verse (like we do every Friday), one student came to my desk and said, "Please put your things in your cubby and copy down this week's verse into your Bible notebook. You have heard it said, 'love your neighbor and hate your enemy, but I tell you..." and proceeded to tell me the rest of the verse.
All week he had thought that my morning instructions were a part of the verse he had to memorize, even though we had gone over it and practiced it as a class many times throughout the week.
Oh the things you have to think about when teaching fourth graders
Lesson learned: draw a line between different pieces of information you have written on the chalkboard.
