Not Plugged in

Yep. I could have deleted this and maybe I should but ... I am laughing at myself. My techy principal came in to help me and unwrapped to cord asking "Would you lke me to try plugging this in?" I could have died. We had a great time laughing about it since. So I admit it. I did not plug it in. I have learnt from this mistake. I guess I got too caught up in wonding if I could get it all to work.
So I did a Mo Williams website talk for his books. The primaries (K to 2) loved it! They want to take out his books and his website info was taken home so they can play the "Fun!" stuff. I put on a short movie promo trailer for "The Littles" and the books went out. Roland Smith has a neat website. I only intended to show "Peak" and "Elephant Run" but the kids were interested in the video with wolves too. Now I have to get more Roland Smith books in too.
I have decided to make slips of paper with the websites or blog sites I show for kids to take and staple in their planners. Teachers that came in for my book talk and book exchanges were also excited about the sites I was showing.
I also started my Lit Circle groups using the ideas from module 4's Ontario webcast. I typed out the notes shown in the webcast videos and allowed my students to view the teacher lead lit circle talks. I hope that this is a good place to start from. I will review what we watched last class and hand out the 6 important points for honouring our lit circle talks. I hope to have set a strong guideline for respectful behaviour. This group I am doing lit circles with is very offtask. There are 20 kids - 3 or 4 kids to a group and 6 groups. There are 3 graphic novels we are studying so two groups have the same novel but different members. The books are: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Storm in the Barn, and Amulet Book One.