A Peculiar Day Indeed

Today is a rather peculiar day… Who am I kidding, every day is peculiar in an elementary school. ;) First of all, it’s a jeans day! As a reward for a school fundraiser, most of my kids get a free dress day and the teachers also get a jeans day. It’s pretty cool actually. I love seeing what the kids wear when they’re out of uniforms. Even the type of jeans they wear shows a lot about their personalities. Also, jeans day is highly convenient because I maybe sorta slept in 13 minutes past my alarm today and woke up to my roommate’s alarm (love you Monica, yous a lifesaver!).

Nextly (new word, second grade level), one of my trouble-makers is gone from school today. Another student left early for a Dr’s appointment. That takes my already small class down to only 15 students, as relieves me of the biggest class distracters. It’s been weird, but a nice break.

The third weird thing about today is that we have been doing an abnormal amount of reading. This is partly because of our preparation for Grandparent’s Day (tomorrow). The kids have spent time making bookmarks and pictures and writing about things they love about their grandparents. Another reason is because my rockstar teacher is introducing another online form of assessment to the students. My students take a star reading test, and today they are practicing a new AR test. The AR test tests their comprehension in reading through asking questions about details in books. It’s kind of cool, although I’ve never seen it done in another SC school.

All in all, it’s mostly a peculiar day because I haven’t had to teach much. And considering that next week I should have the whole classroom, sitting back for so much of the day is weird. But I do get a lot done. Like correcting our journals today… I even had time to jot some good ones down for ya’ll ;)

Today’s prompt was to write about what might happen if you spent a whole day walking backwards.

“If I spent a whole day walking backwards I would barf. A then I would get raely disy a then I would keep on throwing up. A then I would fall down a then I couldnt do anything walking backwards and it would be raely raely boring and I mean super super boring and that would be hard and I bet I could not do it and I cant even walk forward for a whole day my legs would get raly tiered and I would be sweting and that would be hard to get a drink and to eat and you cant sit down.”

“If I spent a hole day walking backwards it might be like. I would invete these gogles so I could see behide me. Then I would get stuff to eat by open the frige with a toy I would hold behind me. The when I come to school I would not bring the gogles that I invetid I would look behide me. And that is what it might be like if I spent a hole day walking backward!”

One of my students asked for the word “somebody.” He had already written some, so I was explaining that somebody is a compound word. I asked him how to spell “body.” And he looked at me like I was crazy and said, “No. I want ‘somebuddy’.” In his head, that’s how the word sounds and how it should be written. Hilarious. These little guys never fail to amuse me. And they are starting to impress me with their writing.

Final Funny of the day.

This morning, a pair of mystery panties was found in the girl’s restroom. UHM, YES. So, none of us are really sure which girl was avoiding getting her panties in a bunch or perhaps ran into a real panty dropper, but the teachers had a good long laugh about it. My bets are on one of the Kindergarten teachers. Elementary school is weird. (and I love it.)

Until tomorrow,

Peace, love, and mystery panties,

Jayna