The Silent Garden

...is what becomes of The Secret Garden when our classroom noise level becomes so loud, there is nothing else to do but go to silence.

The students in Room 503 have wonderful energy...but sometimes...sometimes it boils over and becomes a bit more...hmmm...a bit more energetic than the classroom can actually contain. And when this happens over and over several times in the course of a short span of time, it comes down to opting for a completely silent work space.

So this morning the students in Room 503 worked on their Secret Garden work packets in silence.

However...

That did not stop us from getting into a lively discussion over the packet questions later in the day...where all kinds of ideas popped up, such as adults have less imagination than children and how it's unfair that teachers at TPA don't have to follow the dress code and students do.

Frances Hodgson Burnett is probably chuckling in her grave.

Cheers,
Ms. Pitman