2 more days!

 I snoozed for two hours today...that takes commitment! I wanted to workout before school because I have a meeting and dinner plans this afternoon....whoops. I'll have to force myself to do it when I get home :/ 

 I want to be back in my routine of waking up at 3:45 and working out without a problem. How did I even do that last year? It's so hard to restart, perhaps I should stop stopping. That might help. 

 Anyway, yesterday was hectic, but I got all the nuggets in stations and got little books out to all my groups, I'd call success on that! I'm ready for 

 My PGP's we're reviewed and submitted, one acronym down for the year. Our SLT's don't seem as scary this time around the way they were explained to us yesterday. Fingers crossed. 

 The yearbooks came in and I had one nugget who just didn't understand why he didn't get one, even though I explained 48383583 times that he didn't even attend our school last year. 

 There were lots of tears yesterday. Someone's cat died, two nuggets wept over moved clothespins, a few just really hate waking up and one guy just couldn't fit his lunch box, jacket and folders in his school bag. 

 Here's to hoping that today and tomorrow pass by without nugget tears!

Dragon Be Gone

 What a relief, I didn't burn down any villages, phew! Today was a much better day than yesterday! Can I get a woot woot?! (WOOT WOOT!)  

 Not that today didn't present itself the challenges: The constipated child who threw themselves on the ground while screaming "I CAN'T POO!". This is my area of expertise, I don't have this issue too often in my life, but I'd say it's a totally apporpriate reaction to the given situation.

  There was the magic of the highlighter. I'll admit that I'm totally obsessed with highlighters, they actually bring me joy, but today they were my enemy. After using highlighter on 24 progress reports so my parents could clearly see, I threw all of them on the copy machine not thinking. That magical ink doesn't show up on te copy machine, a trick I know and love. But that meant going back and re-highlighting information for my own copy. Such a face palm moment. 

 Oh and at the end of the day is there anything you want more than a nice booger on your keyboard. Yes, a green slimy booger sat there waiting for me to find! Seriously? There are literally boxes of tissues everywhere! Gahhh! 

 I was excited though when I was going to put a nugget and his sister in the car in the afternoon and he turned to her and said "Hey guess what I did today, I learned the letter C" which is what I did with him at naptime! I'm glad something stuck! 

Dragon

 I'm home before 4pm. This hardly ever happens, ecspecially on a Monday, but being in school made me want to pull my hair out! Ever have a moment when someone says/ask something and all you can do is make a face because your verbal response would surely be frowned upon? That was my entire day! 

 I woke up ungodly early each day over the weekend, but not today! I literally snoozed for an hour! It would have taken much less effort to just wake up than click the side of my phone all the times I did. 

 I'm not sure what was with me today but I felt like a dragon that just got poked all day long. I was ready to burn down an entire village! Maybe it was the fact that all my pants are about to bust at any second. It could be that it's so hot outside it's like we live on the surface of the sun. Perhaps it's because I spent an hour and a half giving the wrong math assessment. Could be that the amount of things required doesn't match the amout of time given to do them? I'm thinking it's the combination of all of the above, resulting in and overwhelming overload! 

 Today is like the straw that broke the camel's back. Since I'm not an actual camel, just the size of one, I'll have to pick up the load...tomorrow!

I have no pockets for you today because at the first moment I could, I peeled those  pants off and switched to something I could actually take a full breath while wearing. Working on fixing that! 

5 Reasons I Hate Math

 I'll need you to read this in your best Lindsay Lohan voice because that's what I sound like right now. You would think I spent the last 24 years of my life smoking a pack a day and drinking Wild Turkey straight from the bottle. I think it's a mixture of sickness and the amout of effort it took to try to make my nuggets do math today.

 Oh, my sweet 6 lb 8oz baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes, my nuggets just couldn't get it today. It was ways to make 5, because that's a logical lesson for the 3rd week of school for 5 year olds. I literally broke out, teaching actually made my body produce pimples in a 45 minuet period. The concept we're tryin to teach is definitely confusing, but try adding 25 5 year olds who can't seem to follow a simple direction to the equation...see what I did there? I threw a math word on there, BRILLIANT!  

 I'm sure every other kindergarten teacher who did this lesson today is feeling the same way I am! There's got to be some trick, I'm just unaware of it at the moment! Jesus take the wheel! 

 In ELA and Social Living we're learning about families, and I've got to say I'm overly blessed to have such a wonderful work family that can make me laugh when I could cry! 

Reasons Why I Hate Math:

1. It's so hard! To teach, to figure out, everything. 

2. Numbers, ewwwww. 

3. I have not one fond memory involving Math. 

4. Google can answer that question for you!

5. THE LIMIT DOESN'T EXISIT! (Google it!)

Cheese Balls

There are just some days when you have to lay in your coworkers classroom, eat cheese balls and drink apple juice from a Sponge Bob cup. Yesterday was that day! It's only a 4 day week, but it isn't going by any faster. 

 There was the meeting that had 4 people giving information simotsnously, the two parent phone calls, an epic tantrum, the missed bus and the cheese balls. (Those cheese balls were amazing!)

 I'm trying to be awesome create this flawless station rotation that'll give my kids a more efficient time at each station, but so far it's a fail! We're currently just practicing walking, sitting down and rotating from station to station. I thought maybe I forgot I was Ariel and sold my voice to the Sea Witch to become human because it was like I wasn't even talking. 

 The start and the end of the year are always the craziest no doubt, but I'm thinking that the start is just the pits! You have 25 untrained nuggets who want to run around, pick up their friend and then give a warrior cry at the top of their lungs on one hand. Then on the other hand you have mounds of paper work, lessons plans, PLC's, PGP's SLT's, IEP's, ELL reports, modifications, interventions and class shirt order forms! Sheesh, I'm exhausted from just typing that, good thing I'm laying down! 

 Besides all of that, I get to hang out with a bunch of 5 year olds who are excited about learning, and that is pretty legit! I'm trying to take the things I learned over the past two years and use them to my advantage this year. I have definitely grown, but I still have a long way to go to reach Mrs. Peaches status! 

Third Time is a Charm

 I know, I know, I don't deserve your time since I haven't given you mine in so long.....buttttttttttt.....

 I've entered the mythical 3rd year of teaching. Since I started I've been told "by your 3rd year it'll be smooth sailing". Now, I have to admit that I'm not laying on the floor, weeping and questioning every life choice I've made, but I don't think I would use the word "smooth" to describe my year this far. 

 We've been in school for a month now, and I've had my nuggets with me for two weeks. They are a good group of nuggets and I already love them! But one of them sneezed on me today, I mean that kid lost weight after that sneeze! Thankfully we were outside and it was just on my pant leg, otherwise I probably would have passed out. I can deal with a lot of things, but if it comes out their face I'm usually disgusted. 

 Other than today's body excretion I haven't had any major events, praise Him! The year is still young my friend, stay tuned. 

 There is a nugget who talks like Napoleon Dynamite! It's hilarious and frustrating all at the same time. 

 Me: Friends, pick up your pencils. 

 Everyone expect Napoleon: *picks up pencil*

 Me: Napoleon! 

 Napoleon: What? 

 Me: Pick up your pencil

 Napoleon: Okay 

All in that hushed tone Napoleon uses the whole movie "Gosh just bring me Chapstick!" Picture that in the body of a five year old and try not to pee your pants from laughing! 

 I don't have any pocket treats for you today since I took my pants off long ago to switch to running shorts. Which I didn't run in, but I did do two miles.....and then ate Taco Bell....it was delicious, I regret nothing!

Poopsie Dasie

 Have you shunned me yet? You certainly should have! I am the worst blogger ever! Then again, nothing was really happening in my Kindergarten world that would interest anyone...until today. 

 Graduation is a week away. My nuggets know their parts, sorta. I have the copies made. The dress was bought (and crumbled in the bag somewhere in the backseat of my mother's car). The music is ready and so am I! 

 We've been practicing for about two weeks now. Having 60+ five year olds on stage is about as close to paradise as Louisiana is to China. They are tired, they are squished, their legs hurt, they have to pee, there is a bug in their eye...always something right?

 Well today was a whole other level! One nugget blew chunks- now I dont particularly like this phrase but it's the only one fitting because that is exactly what happened: CHUNKS! The lord was looking down on us though because we had just called the names of the kids right in front of the spewer so it missed them and just hit the bleachers. 

 Think that's all that happened?! Not even close. We had a mystery pooper! Some nugget dropped a friend right on the stage, in the general walking path, and wouldn't fess up. There was a trial of shadoobie down the stage, the steps and onto the floor before we noticed. After a lengthy investigation we still have not caught the pooper-petrator.

 9 days is all there is left, have my nuggets saved all their crazy until now? A

Babies and Bells

 I know, I know, I should be shunned. I have no other excuse except laziness for my lack of litature. 

 A four day week, easy right?! Pshhhhhhhh, as if (if you didn't originally, read that in Cher's voice from Clueless). It's only day two but I am exhausted! That three day weekend must have given the nuggets super energy, while it drained me of mine. Waking up at 4:15 to workout is getting old, but I'm still doing it. 

 I now have a new found respect for babies. I have a wisdom tooth trying to push through my sweet little sensitive gums and it's making my entire head feel like it's gonna explode! How do babies do it?!? I understand why try are so cranky now! The nugget who screamed at the top of his lungs for 20 minuets didn't help the situation either. A scream that can compete with those movie scenes where a lady shatters a glass. A scream that will haunt me for eternity. 

 Along with the sour comes some sweet. My little nuggets ROCKED their DIBELS testing today. I mean like "BOOYAHHHHH" status! I'm so proud! :)

Today's pockets:

A bell: because a nugget closed our door and it got stuck in the door frame, locking me out of my classroom. I had to pull an operation with a pair of sisccors and some man power. 

I'm not worthy!

 Has it really been 490 years since I wrote? Whoopsie! 

 Let's recap! November: Best Friend's Wedding 

Thanksgiving virus. 

December: Two nuggets hospitalized 

End of the 2nd nine weeks

Amazing Christmas earrings everyday 

Ugly sweaters galore

Asked to be in another best friend's wedding

Two weeks of pure laziness

And now we are almost half way through January! The 3rd nine weeks in underway and it's all down hill from here! I have to say that I thought this first week back was going to drag but I must say it went rather quickly! Let's hope the next 7 weeks until Mardi Gras follows suit. Two months with no break is long but after that we just have five weeks until spring break ablnd then five weeks until summer! I can deal with that! 

 Unannounced formal observations should be starting soon, so start praying! As long as it's not the last Tuesday of school again I'll be okay! 

 I obviously don't have any pockets but I can bring you a quote:

Child: "he just called me the most disgusting thing ever"

Me: "he said those words to you?"

Child: "no"

Me: "so what did he call you?"

Child: "girlfriend"