A Teacher's worst nightmare!!!

It was one of those days that you knew could go either way. Sure you're all prepared, but in the realities of teaching you just never know. That being said, this particular day was going well. The kids were in good spirits, they were enjoying our poetry unit, they were working well together, and they were WORKING and I was PULLING and ROCKING a SMALL GROUP! 

And then. 

Out of nowhere. 

It happened. 

It starts as a murmuring among a few. 

Then it slowly builds throughout the masses. 

Until it has hit every single child. 

THE.

INTERNET. 

GOES.

DOWN! 

Slowly but surely each kid who is currently on an IPad starts to call out to me that theirs won't work. Then, every other kid touches their Ipad to confirm what I already know is an Epidemic. 

I then have 24 children calling out to me that their Ipad is not working. It matters not to them that I can't fix it. It matters not to them that mine isn't working either. It only matters that it is not. Now to be fair to their panic they are working very hard at this point on their Reading Menu boards they have to have finished by Friday and a good portion of the Menu boards use the Internet. 

My saving grace? 

We hear a small voice. In the back of the room we hear, "We have our Poetry bin. Why don't we just use this time to do our Independent Reading with Poetry or write our Poem of the Day until the Internet comes back on?" 

The other 23 turn and face this single solitary scholar that dares to suggest work can be done without an Ipad. Light bulbs go off, scholars start agreeing, and books are grabbed! The Day is SAVED. I turn back in relief to my small group and we finish Reading and Writing.

Flash forward to the afternoon during Math when we were once again supposed to use our Ipads for our Math Menus. 

No Internet. No Panic. 

My kids grab various games from my math bins and we are good to go! 

Picture of my math bins again. The left are filled with supplies. The right are filled with activities I change out each week.