Tuesday, September 6, 2022

That one time when I was the music teacher

 Today when I dropped my students off at music, the music teacher met me at the door.  She said, I have to go make a report.  I was a little irritated.  I needed to go to the bathroom and make a few copies, but alrighty. 

She told my class to go sit in a circle and she would be right back. So in I went, to music class. I asked my students what songs they knew and one shouted out, Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer!  Another kid said All Star.  I sad, oh, let’s go with that one.  I pulled up the Kids Bop version because every song seems to have a curse word in it these days.  We were singing along and the music teacher came back.  I got up to leave and all my students screamed Noooooo. I’m a terrible singer and I was struggling to remember the words to the All Star song, but my 5 minutes of being the music teacher was kinda fun.  

At recess, the boys were talking about alligator weiners. The girls tattled.  I told the boys that I might have to tell the principal.  One kid was literally about to have a panic attack.  I told him to not talk about that stuff at school and he said ok. Alligator weiners.  That was a new one.  

Monday, September 5, 2022

It's September

 I'm teaching 4th grade this year.  Yep, I looped.  This class is fun and funny and the one kid that I was worried about all summer, he moved.  I may have thrown a little party when I heard the news.  Each year, I have my students cut out and tape rectangular prisms together to show which pod they are in.  I guess we don't have to call them pods anymore.  So the blue group is a group of crazy boys that I LOVE to pieces.  One of them was smacking the neatly hanging blue rectangular prisms and I said, hey!  knock it off.  He said, it's a cat toy and he just smiled ear to ear.  


Hardly anyone gets in trouble in my room anymore.  I just laugh it off.  Man, I'm getting old. Last week, we learned about upcycling.  The 4th graders have a challenge.  There is a birthday party coming up and your friend loves the Earth!  He or she only wants upcycled gifts.  I can't wait to see these!  I need to make one for my teaching partner, so they have an example.   She loves the Yankees.  Maybe I can make her a baseball gift.  Her birthday is in October.  


  I have triplets in my class this year.  They are pictured in the middle here.  I had the girls last year and now I have all of them!  super cute kids.  Named A,B, and C.  Ava, Bella, and super Cooper.   


I love 3 day weekends. I have everything done and I can write in my neglected blog.