Today was absolutely infuriating. I don't know how I have any self control not to eat some delicious french fries because I used an extreme amount today so I wouldn't get arrested. It was another "why don't I have a snake's jaw" day (see previous post for any needed explanation).
My new strategy of "you only have 44 more days to become a first grader" is totally working on some of my students. As for the ones I was trying to motivate, they could care less about being a first grader. That's the thing, I don't know how to make them care! Is there a secret teacher trick that new teachers aren't let in on or something?
Confession: I may be causing childhood obesity. Today for naptime, I gave the nuggets snacks in ten minuet intervals of they were quiet. Now of course they were all healthy snacks but still, nothin else works. I have a bunch of hungry children!
Confession #2: I held a funeral for loss computer time with one of my nuggets who just couldn't get over the fact that he wasn't allowed to play on the computer at naptime. He thought he totally earned I by throwing his headphones in the computer lab, tossing bean bags at my widow and rocking a bench against the wall 3749394 times after being told to stop. So I did my best to calm him down as he hysterically cried over the fact that he had to lay down. We said nice words about computer time, the games they had played and the way computer time brought him joy. We talked about how tomorrow they might be brought together again and how the pain of this loss wouldn't last forever. That totally didn't work.
The day ended with Zumba, which was fun but exhausting. I skipped tanning because the only bed I wanted to lay I was my own!
Today's Pockets:
Scissors: my weapon of choice, just kidding
Goldfish bag: nap bribe
Tickets
Coins
Post it pack
Ring: confiscated
Magnetic Letters: recovered after a robbery
Chapstick
Marker
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