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Check out the comments on this post , and tell me what the heck they mean! I’m flummoxed.
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I have been stumbling upon the teacher version of the Ryan Gosling “Hey girl” meme on Pinterest, and think it’s very amusing. I showed this one to my 7th grade son, and he totally didn’t get it. This next one really appeals to me, because I am a bit of
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One morning, not long ago, one of my brightest little boys made my day. His bus arrives early, so every morning he peeks in through the window on our door, sometimes jumping up and down with excitement. If he sees one of us moving around the room, getting
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Not too long ago, the letter of the week was Q. I introduced it, and then demonstrated how to write it on my big chart paper. First I wrote capital Q correctly, a few times, and then I showed how to write lowercase q. “Now I’m going to write it the wrong
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1. You get to wear silly hats. 2. You get to do things like wear purple every day for a week (it’s Purple Week!). 3. It’s never blood on your hands; it’s always marker. 4. Hugs. Lots of them. 5. You get to read awesome, funny books out loud every day.
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“Honey, shhh. You can speak Parseltongue once we get outside.” (Yes, I am a big enough Harry Potter fan that I could tell what that whispering noise was, when we were in the hall getting ready to go out.)
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A little boy in my class raised his hand at story time the other day, and piped up, “Mrs. X, you have a beautiful face.” I melted, naturally. ”Oh, honey, what a nice thing to say. I love you, too.” A few days later he said it to my Americorps volunteer.
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Yes, I did this. I feel like an awful person, even as I feel like laughing. On Saturday morning, I was driving my 11 year old and his buddy to skateboarding, as usual, when I asked the buddy (whose native language is Spanish), “How do you say ‘Be quiet’
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Dear parents, Thank you for sending me such a sweet bunch of kids. They are very smiley and seem to like coming to school. They giggle when we read silly stories, and they already have favorite books (“The Pigeon!” “The Chicken!”). They love recess and
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Today in the blocks a little guy said to me, “I know lots of jokes now that I’m five.” I said, “Oh? Can you tell me one?” “How did the bowtie touch the apple?” “Um, I don’t know,” I said, thinking, wait, wasn’t this Monkey’s unfathomable joke? “So he
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At our pizza party today, Monkey said, “How did the bow-tie touch the apple?” I said, “Wow, I don’t know.” “So he could sit on his lap!” He crowed with laughter, and I smiled to myself. I have a great job.
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Today it was my turn to sit at the game table to play Go Fish with my little friends. I’ve been making my college-student-volunteer do it on her days (she is endlessly patient), and my assistant and Americorps member have both recently had their turns.
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It’s spring, so we have been studying plants and our whole windowsill is covered with little cups full of dirt and sprouts of various sorts. A lot of teachers use their plants for science — I wonder what would happen if? What would happen if we didn’t
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…you reach into the box to get a new tissue, and pull out one that is partly used. …you come home with blue fingernails because the food coloring spilled. …you find yourself using the ‘royal we’ when you talk to your class (“We will be quiet in the hall,
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Two weeks ago, I told my class that I was going to buy the new Elephant and Piggie book over the weekend. When I got to the bookstore that Saturday, however, they didn’t have a copy. When we came back to school on Tuesday, after our Presidents’ Day holiday,
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