"Miss Harris, she said Mr. Taylor ain't real."
Day 14
Setting: Students are entering the classroom (first thing in the morning)
Student: I feel like crawlin'.
Me: Why?
Him: Cause my feet tired.
WAIT A MINUTE! Who is the one who's on their feet all day, me or you? Yeah, that's me. So, I guess I need ta start crawlin'.
On the previous day, I taught my kids the short vowel song. "Where is short a? Where is short a? Here I am. Here I am. I am in the hat rack, Cracker Jacks and fat cats, a, a, a. a, a, a" (here you say the sound...not a, but the short a sound, as in hat). Then, it goes on with short e, i, o, and u, too. The kids loved it. Anyway, I made copies for them to take home so they could practice the song, and I guess at least one of them did.....
"Miss Harris, my cat got sad when I was singin' the song. She ran to my brother."
Lil boy: Miss Harris, she called me a little boy.
Me: Well, you are a little boy, aren't you?
Lil boy: Yes.
Funny girl: I know what a, e, i, o, and u mean.
Me: What?
Girl: Sometimes y.
On Wednesdays and Fridays, we get a fruit or veggie snack in the afternoon. Day 14's fruit snack = apples.
Me: These apples are cut into halves. Each person gets 2 halves. 2 halves make up one what?
Class: One whole!
Lil crazy boy: Miss Harris, can you staple my apples together??
Me: If I plant an apple seed in the ground, what will it grow into??
Student: An apple! (just one.)
In my classroom, the desks are divided into groups. I have the North, South, East, West, and the equator. Each day, students work together as a group to try to earn points. The group with the most points at the end of the day gets an extra ticket for their ticket bank.
Student: I have an idea about instead of North, South, West, East, and equator-what we can do instead of that. It can be teachers against students.
Me: But, there's only one teacher.
Student: But, that's okay, it will still be fair.
Me: Well, when would I get points?
Student: Any time we are talking or acting up, you get a point. Any time we are doing what we are supposed to, we get a point.
(Why do I have a feeling I would win??? EVERY DAY.)
The North is at the front of the room.
The equator is the line of desks in the middle.
West
East
South
EastDay 15
We have breakfast in the classrooms. So, as soon as students arrive and put their things away, they get their breakfast. French toast for breakfast on this day. After eating all of it, one student said, "At first, I thought it was chicken." Chicken. Cause french toast looks just like chicken. And they taste the same, too. Yeah.
Morning Work: Write 3 interesting sentences about a car that can fly.
Student: But, a car CAN'T fly.
Me: I know...you have to use your imagination.
Student: Well, my imagination is that it can't fly. That's what it's gonna be.
(I think it's time to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For sure.)
A wedding from a kid's point of view:
Student: I went to a wedding last night.
Me: You did?! Was it fun?
Her: Yes it was funnnn! I got some bubbles!!!!
Reading story for the week: "Fighting the Fire". It's all about firefighters. So, we watched a slideshow about firemen. The slideshow asked the question, "How do firefighters work as a team?" Students got a chance to talk to a partner about it. And this is what I heard a few seconds later..."Nuh-uh! They are not super heroes!"
Day 16
This is the day one said, "I hate you" to me. Sad day. But he hasn't said it since and never will again. At least I think not.
Day 17
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| We have 17 cents in the piggy bank. 17 cents for day 17. |
Today, students made vocabulary booklets and used each of their vocabulary words in a sentence. Vocabulary word: heat. One student wrote: "The heat was very hot. I had fell out. Cause it was too hot."
And another said, "Can I color my picture when I'm done? 'Cause the tree is on fire."
Here are some more vocabulary sentences....
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| Flames are little pieces of fire. |
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| Heat is like fire, but it has no flame. |
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| I'm telling on you, too. I don't like this. |
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| This just amazes me. I don't understand dyslexia, but I have quite a few dyslexic kids this year. This is crazy to me, though...how a mind could see this way. It is a whole sentence backwards. The heat make it hot in her. (The heat makes it hot in here.) |
Random quote of the day: "I like the blood from the deers. It's good."
Day 18
Boy student gets upset because someone called him a girl. Student who called him a girl gets in trouble. 2 minutes later, we walk down the hall, I tell the girls to step out of line, and guess who also steps out. Same boy, yes.
This week in Math, we've been talking about addition and subtraction. We have been writing number sentences to go along with story problems, and the children have to look for clue words to decide whether to add or subtract. In their workbooks, there was a random story problem about a bunch of mice. So, I came up with my own crazy story problem. This is what I wrote on the board.
One student asked, "What's supper?"
So, I asked the class, "What's supper?"
And this is what I heard first: "Cat food!"
Then someone said, "Fish!"
And finally...."Dinner." Yay. Someone knows. Supper is dinner. Not cat food. Hey...at least they are using their context clues. All 3 answers make sense in the story. 4 of them go to the kitchen to eat cat food. 4 of them go to the kitchen to eat fish. 4 of them go to the kitchen to eat dinner. Haha....wait...the wrong answers sound better than the right answer. Oh no.
Day 19
We have Ice Cream Fridays at our school. Students with good behavior can purchase popsicles or ice cream as a reward on Friday. So...it's Friday, and I get excuses. "Miss Harris, I couldn't bring my dollar for ice cream cause my daddy was at a softball game and I was up all night until 10:00." All night until 10:00. I wish I was only up 'til 10:00.
Discussing writing the greeting of a letter--
Me: If I want to write a letter to Santa Claus, what do I write first?
Student: Dear Santa
Me: Do I write a capital or lowercase s (for Santa)?
Student: medium-sized!
Me: What do I put after Santa? (wanting her to say 'a comma')
Student: Claus
When my kids won't sit still in their seat, I just let them stand. Today, I had a child who got upset and kept kicking his chair during a test. So...I took his chair away. I told him if he decided to kick his desk, he would be taking his test without a desk in a minute. He did not kick his desk. No he didn't.
I checked my students' Reading Logs to see who had been reading each night. I gave stickers to the ones who had read the most books and kept track of it in their Reading Log. After handing one of the girls her sticker, she said, "I read Dr. Phil, too." I shoulda said, "Today is gonna be a changing day in your life." But I didn't.
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