School update

I did not know where to start, so I decided to start with the most common thing in my room and that is poop! I did have a phantom pooper but he has been caught! For all of you wondering why it is because he physically does not know when he has to go. Basically I am potty training him at school! So that is the story there. But that is not the end because this glorious picture is not from him, this is from a substiute pooping on teachers chairs! Yep that is also real life. She has subbed twice in first grade and both times this has happened! I walked past her in the hall as she was searching for the bathroom and noticed the nice large stain on the back of her pants as she shuffled to the bathroom. Once. okay we wont judge you everyone has accidents or problems, but twice! After talking to the principal I don't think this sub is coming back to our school. We have enough bathroom problems as it is.

There were a couple of days that have been extremely stressful in my classroom. Which leads me to letting my frustrations out by going to the pool and swimming 3 miles. I did have to share my lanes with some old men but luckily not for longcause passing people that slow is always a little weird. But it was good to go and sure wore me out afterwards!

Since we got back from Christmas break it has been so stinkin cold that we have had indoor recess everyday! It is downright awful. One thing my children like to do is color me pictures. I used to hang them on the front of my desk but then it got to be too much so I now have a basket for them to put it in for now and then I will make a book out of all of them. Anyway everyone has been making hearts lately so I have probably almost 100 hearts in that basket! But this little boy gave this to me and I was so excited about it. I love 3D pictures of pop-ups, whatever you want to call them. I have no idea how he figured out how to do this but I absolutely love it!

I remember celebrating groundhogs day every year growing up, but that might have been because we live closer to Punxsutawney than they do here in Utah. So I decided we celebrated a day early and teach my children about it! I made them be reporters and they had to ask everyone what they thought was going to happen, shadow or no shadow? This was the best my class has behaved in a long time and the best they have followed directions. Usually they would be running around the room or getting in fights or crying in a corner, but I had none of that and I couldn't help but capture the moment to remember!

Being a teacher I love the $1 bins at Target! I found these great markers the other day and had to buy them. I am not sure if I justified buying them for my class or because I loved the jokes!

After another frustrating day of school our PE teacher Coach Eddie gathered some teachers in the gym and we did Zumba after school. It was alot of fun and a good way to let go of everything that happened that day!

Near the beginning of the year I had a boy terrorize my room and rip almost everything apart. This was the only poster that survived and I put it in my closet for a while to keep it safe in case that happened again. Well going through that closet I found it and hung it up to help remember everyday there needs to be smiles and laughter! Maybe talking about this on Monday will help motivate my children to cry less! One can only hope, I have got the most emotional class in the whole school!