Too much Tuesday

I'm not sure how many more times I can say, "Is he hurting you? Is he hurting someone else? Is he hurting himself? Then I don't need to hear about it!" and "criss cross applesauce, hands in the cookie jar" before I'm eligible for an episode of Snapped!
I've been back at work two days and I already wanna pull my hair out! Oh the nuggets are crazier than ever! My dreams if them returning to school as mellow, mature nuggets was quickly shattered into a million tiny fragments.
Second round of formal evaluations have started, which makes going to work similar to walking on a land mine. I'm just ready to have it over and done with! Can't get much worse than the first one! Unless Jesus really wants me to quit! Haha
The nuggets really get under my skin sometimes, but the second I put on When I was your Man by Bruno Mars I can help but smile. It is hilarious to watch 24 five year olds sing scream "I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT YOU FLOWERS AND HELD YOUR HANDDDDDDD". I basically have a love/hate (not really) relationship with them. Love always outweighs it though.

Today's pockets:
Magnet
Bendy snappy thing

Busy Bee-ing

Sorry for my lack of literature, I had to dance in the middle of Canal street in a bee costume. Last night was our Raising Cane's fundraiser night so naturally I wore a costume. To be honest, I just like costumes. No matter the event, if a costume is appropriate (a costume is always appropriate in my book) I'm wearing one.
It was hysterical and super fun, but also exhausting! Teaching is wearing me out! One more day and then a blissful week off! I can even translate my excitement to text! Elated, overjoyed, ecstatic, pumped, jazzed, keen, exhilarated...nope, none of those do justice!
I got my third walk through observation in three weeks today. I think baby Jesus himself must have stepped into the room along with the administration because my nuggets were perfect. Little sweet nuggets all sitting down, participating, raising hands, answering questions, and staying seated. My heart stopped beating because I thought I must have died, I was unreal. And then when the administrators walked out, baby Jesus must have gone with them, the nuggets were berserk! I mean, standing on chairs, screaming, tongues wagging crazy.
I'm about to make life size posters of the administrators to hang up so they think they are always in the room! I am more than thankful that the nuggets were well behaved, I like need to go give tithes to the church! I just wish they would have stayed that way until the lesson was complete!
Tomorrow will go fast, tomorrow will go fast, tomorrow will go fast! If I say that enough times will it come true? My plans include a lot of imbibing and a lot of dancing. It's the second greatest event of the year this weekend, the Lockport Fair. For those of you who have never been, please make it a priority to attend. It is a magical event where you are reassured that you're making the right choices in life! The food is amazing and the people watching doesn't get better than this!

Today's Pockets:
Poker chips: every 5 year old needs to learn the rules of the game
Marker
Dinosaur

P.S. you're welcome for the bee pictures.

Be the Bee

Day of the last week before Spring break: foe! Today was like being dragged behind a car in a burlap sack. That's really unjustified, I have no idea what that's like and I apologize if I've brought up any painful memories.
It started off in failure and it's ending that way too. I'm currently trying to make a bee costume to wear to our Raising Cane's fund raiser night. Now this is isn't a requirement, I'm just trying to be awesome. My original idea of stuffing a t-shirt to give me a rounded bee body turned out to just be a glimpse into my obese future. Which makes me worrisome that I skipped my workout to make said costume.
Waking up this morning was surprisingly easy. I thought for sure it would take a small army to get me moving, but I was awake before my first alarm. Because I have 6 set, legitimately.
Did I ever mention that I hate centers? Having at least 20 five year olds left to their own devices while I try to teach nuggets how to read nonsense words is basically the worst idea ever. Given, I didn't correctly train the nuggets, but I didn't know how! I can't wait to just know what to do because of all the experience I have!
Tricky thing about experience, it comes from bad judgements. And while I've made plenty of bad judgement calls, I still have no idea what I was suppose to have learned. And I seem to still be making bad judgement calls, frequently.
Four more days until I can sit in a kiddie pool and drink until I think I'm in the ocean! Did I just admit my drunk intentions aloud? Whoops!

Today's Pockets:
Marker
Bee bucks

Did you think we broke up? Never!

Missed me? Along with a rather long list of issues, commitment is one of the top five! This week has been so long I don't even know what day it is.
On Tuesday I legitimately thought I blogged. Turns out I wrote it in my head while showering and then just went to sleep. I kind of fell into a slump this week. You know those days that you wish you had an option of not playing? I had a few of those. Spring break just needs to hurry.
This morning I thought I was going to go insane. The rain seemed to have given them extra energy and less care about getting in trouble. It was a zoo!
I find that as a teacher I have many job titles. Zoo Keeper, Maid, Nurse, Writer, Artist, Singer, Cattle Herder. Just to name a few
As I was giving a nugget an attitude adjustment in the back of my room during group work in math, I got a surprise observation from the HBIC. (Google it) it was one of those "they're right behind me aren't they" kind of moments. It actually went well though. My other nuggets were working together and most importantly correctly!
I got all positive feed back! Second walk through like that, could it be? Am I improving? It kind of made me want to flip over a table in a "yeahhhhh boiiiiii" Flava Flava way. I celebrated with Jambalaya for dinner and soon there shall be drinks with DG!
Quote of the day: "I don't like herbivores, I only like carnivores. I want the carnivores to take over" all with tears in his eyes.

Today's pockets:
Writing utensils
Nugget ID
Bag-o-Math

I'm not sure if I can walk and blog.

And so Monday started with a restless nights sleep because I had crazy dreams that legitimately made me question myself.
I thought for sure the day would be shot due to a schedule change but I think my nuggets rather enjoyed it. I had braced myself for full blown anarchy when I told them centers would be after lunch and computer lab was first. They must be growing up because they took it like champions.
It was nice to switch things up a bit! It was much better than I had anticipated, did I still want to punch myself in the face? Of course I did, but I felt it much less vigor today!
This week has promise! I'm fearful of walk through observations, but confident that I'm prepared. Surprise observations are like playing hide and seek and forgetting that you're hiding. You've been waiting in your spot for so long, being perfectly silent, which is the equivalent to teaching awesome lessons and having the nuggets comprehend what you're saying. But then all of a sudden you let you leg slip out or you sneeze, relation: when the nuggets look at you like your speaking Spanish or you forget how to spell a word while trying to write a sentence on the board. That's when your super awesome spot is revealed! This made much more sense in my head than it sounds here, I promise!
Our usual workout didn't quite happen the way it usually does so currently multitasking and blogging as I walk my street. I'm usually already in bed now but cutting four bell peppers took me a century.

Today's pockets:
Name stick
Highlighter
Walmart list: I spent under $50, hooray!

When I grow up...

I know I've said this before but now I'm really starting to question my choices: the thing I look forward to the most during the day is my workout. Who am I?
Today there was no workout, so sad. I had full intention of it and all my coworkers bailed and I have horrible self motivation. But I do plan on going for a walk later, which is better than nothing, even if it does involve a daiquiri. It was that kind of day that deserves one!
It was career day, and it was long! Five presentations from a/an: tankermen, etnergy, baker, animal shelter worker and aerobics instructor. So I lied about missing the workout, I did body attack with the kids and the instructor....then fell out the classroom and got a huge bruise. True story. This job is so dangerous!
It was also a dress up day for the kids. I had a chef, a rockstar, a baker, military men, teachers, doctors, ballerinas, sports players, cops, and my favorite, "a karate chopper". As a child, I would have chosen to dress as either a Mary Kay lady or a garbage man. I'm now thinking those might have been legit choices.
Later in the day one of my nuggets flipped his desk, hitting me in the leg. That's the moment Mommie Dearest almost came out, I instead just called the office and tried to lower my blood pressure.
I think everyone in the Lafourche Parish school system would agree with me when I say that it's time for spring break! Two more weeks! Two longgggggg weeks!
There's a saying that goes "if you ask God for patience he doesn't just give you patience, he gives you opportunities to e patient"....I don't remember praying for patience, but I'm sure getting a lot of those opportunities.

Today's Pockets:
Half of a butterfly clip/decoration
Fish: pulled straight from a nugget's mouth

Stuck

A staple was stuck in my finger today. That is all.

Pizza wishes

Truck day, ugh! 17 trucks, 3 hours and 24 hungry nuggets. It was really cool to watch the nuggets get excited about the different vehicles and all their gadgets but it was equally exhausting. Gaining their attention after that extravaganza was basically impossible, loved it!
The best part of the day was journal time. We wrote about truck day and what kind of truck they hoped they would see. One if my nuggets wanted to see a Pizza Hut car! How great is that?!? I high fived her, greatest answer ever!
Our workout this afternoon was intense. My arms are like rubber bands and my legs hurt just thinking about moving them! The thought of showering is daunting because I know I'll have to lift my arms over my head. Tanning was even a little painful! NO PAIN NO GAIN!! Was my attempt to be a scary go-getter work?
3 more days, 3 more days! Tomorrow I'll be sporting my colones shirt for college day!

Today's Pockets:
Markers
Tickets
Tootsie Roll
Cross Necklace
Strange Wire?

And...I..Was...Running

My class played the biggest April Fools joke ever. They were so well behaved in the morning and then after lunch they were all like "April fools, we're gonna act like animals again! MUAHAHAHAHA"
Seriously the morning was magic! Even a little while after lunch when I had a surprise walk through, they were cooperative and engaged with only minor behavior infractions.
Out walks the boos, in comes the crazy! Their group work was atrocious and I almost lost my mind. They were even unfazed by our usual naptime edible bribe.
The icing on the cake though, was when I had to literally run up the play set to catch a nugget. Today was our extra recess incentive for those friends who made good choices during the month. I had my friends who made bad choices sit down while the other played. Well wouldn't you know that one nugget just decided that the rules didn't apply to him, which is the reason he was sitting in the first place, and sprinted towards the playground. Not only did he climb the set, but then refused to get down. My frustration level was beyond any normal level when I climbed up magenta stairs, squeezed (good thing I've been working out and eating grilled chicken) through a purple twisty tunnel and out onto the platform. I was able to catch him on the ground and luckily my mom was there to take him to the office.
The bell rang just in time, praise Him! I at least got to put my frustration to good use with our afternoon workout, which was cray today! I'm not gonna get skinny by thinking about it though.

Today's Pockets:
Boo-coo (that's a real word) markers
Cash money
Ink pen: taking from an up and coming tattoo artist in my room
Fish
Tickets
Crayon