What are you dressed like?

A teacher at my school, well most of the teachers except for me, came dressed up on Halloween. I am loser-ish, and hate dressing up silly. I am not cool enough I guess.

One student asked this teacher what she was dressed like. She asked what he thought she was. He said, "A pig!" She looked at him and showed him her tail, which was clearly not a pig's tail. Then he said, "A cow!" She was thinking he was kidding... he really wasn't! This boy's older brother, a 4th grader, put his arm around the teacher and said, "No! Look at her. She is clearly a cat, and an adorable one indeed!"

Nothing like a little flattery!

New funnies...

For the last 2 weeks we have had "scientists" from the U of O at our school. They taught our second graders all about balance, motion, spinning, and rolling. I had to teach 2 of the days to get a free credit from the U of O!

One day we were using straws and disks to make wheels on an axle. We had been using these straws all week, as had the other 3 second grade classes. The straws were handed out and the kids proceeded to put them in their mouths and whatnot. The scientist told the kids that it was unsanitary and they should not lick the straws. They didn't listen... of course! One of the 2nd grade teachers said she would take care of it. She said, "Hey kids, there is poop on those straws!" Immediately the straws hit the ground and the situation was taken care of!

TODAY- I owed the kids a treat because they earned 60 classroom points. I made sugar cookies last night and got the frosting and sprinkles for the kids to decorate them. 1/2 way through the decorating and eating... THE FIRE ALARM GOES OFF! I accidently yelled "holy crap", but what a way to end a party... a messy party. The kids were painting at this time as well.

I have a student who likes to entertain the class. One day last week he came up to me and asked if he could perform Indiana Jones for the class. I said yes because I was dying to see what he would do. He went up to the board and started humming the theme song! It was hilarious! You know, duhduhduh duhduhduh... so funny! Well today I have him tugging on my shirt after lunch recess. He was asking if he could entertain the class with his wooden flute! I again said yes. He got up there and squeaked and squawked his way through some song, probably Indiana Jones again, but he doesn't realize that in order for the notes on a recorder type instrument to change you have to hold all of the holes shut from the top... so pretty much it was the same squeaky note the entire time. Funny kid though...

I had to CORE test my students, which is a test on words that have the same target skill. Like r-controlled vowels, or short vowels... the test took 15 mins per kid! I have the low reading group, so that was expected. One of the words was "held" and the kid sounded it out but said "swimmin pool"! We also got a ton of cuss words out of the real words. The kids didn't really pick up on what they were saying except one kid who looked up and said, no that's not it! I didn't mean to say that!!!