Where Would you Go?

Today was PJ Day/Literacy Day at school. I had the opportunity to choose a favourite picture book of mine to read to a class that I don't normally teach in Grade 1.

Snuggled up in my bathrobe and slippers I read 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". In it, Alexander repeatedly says because his day is so bad, he'd like to move to Australia.

After reading, I asked where the students would like to go if they were having a bad day, and why.

Here are some of their responses:

Sally: I'd go to China if I was having a bad day because a lot of toys are made in China and toys make me happy. (My personal fav - I had to suppress a laugh with this one!)

Billy: I'd go on a Disney Cruise.

Sally: I'd go to Edmonton (no reason why given....).

Billy: I'd stay home.

Sally: I'd go to Scotland to see 'stuff'.

Billy: I'd go on The Bat at Canada's Wonderland.

Billy: I'd go to a hockey game - to see Sidney Crosby (poor kid would be disappointed with that wish these days)

Sally: I'd tell Alexander to stop wanting to go to Australia.

Billy: I'd go to New York, because they have better desserts than we do!

Very cute!

Flash back to September

In response to wearing my hair down and 'curly' today, I received the following first thing today....

"Mrs. M.....you look shaggy today". (Billy, Grade 3)

Note: this is the first time I've worn my hair like this since the last similar hair 'episode' in September! They don't miss A THING (and it wasn't even the same kid).

I guess it's going to be ponytails from now on!

What's Up With That?

.... saw a JK student (4 years old) walking down the hall today watching a movie on his I-PAD!!!

???????!!!!!???????

Points for Creativity

A Grade 3 student got very creative with a sweet treat today.

In the middle of class, I notice that Billy attached a Blow-Pop (candy ring) to his recorder using string and an elastic band. In between playing notes, he was taking a nice big lick of his sucker.

This was definitely a teaching first for me... and although internally laughing, I did ask him to take it off, and gave him a ziploc bag for storage.

Where do they come up with this stuff???

Smooching....

Picture it: Grade 1 Class, Friday, 2:55p.m.

In the middle of a lesson, I see Billy (who's sitting on the carpet) raise the leg of his pants and kiss his leg. He then covers up his leg again and refocuses his attention. Nobody else in the class has noticed, and he isn't distracting, so I carry on.

He proceeds to do this three more times over the next few minutes. Only my co-op student and I are seeing him do this, and are trying suppress our giggles. Eventually he stopped, leaving us uber-curious to why he was puckering up.

At the end of class my co-op student went to talk to him and found out that he was smooching his leg as he 'hurt it at recess and wanted to kiss it better'.

How cute is that???

Pulling the Wool over our Eyes!

Happy New Year everyone!

Well - we're back to the grind and the generally all of the 'Billy's' and 'Sally's' have been quite tired this week......except for one Grade 3 in particular.

Believe it or not, this student attempted to skip my class! (He's 8 years old!) One of his teachers dismissed him from a resource-support class to join his homeroom classmates before coming down to see me. He never made it back to his homeroom....therefore his homeroom teacher thought he was still getting help.....the resource teacher thought he had gone back to class....and I just assumed he was absent that day as he didn't come down with his peers.

But no....the little smarty pants HID in between the rotary class change and then v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y packed his bags and put on his snowsuit, ready to go. It wasn't until his teacher was walking back to her room from a meeting 25 minutes later that she saw him and accompanied him to my room.

Skipping - The nerve!

Let's recap the score ...

Three Adult Teachers - 0,
Billy - 1