It has been a very busy, crazy 2 weeks since my last post...
1st grade has been learning:
-adjectives (what kind?, which one?, how many?)
-how to add & subtract 10 using your brain
-addition
-subtraction
-potty training is a necessity
Mr. Bojangles is 'Movin' On Up' in the world. He got a new home! I ordered him a "Live Frog Habitat" with some of my classroom money, and it is awesome! Mr. BoBo absolutely loves it! I'll have a picture update for you to see it soon. It has little plants, hills, a sleeping cave, and lots of swimming room. He is toadally cool now! The coolest part is that now the kids get to watch him eat the crickets! Their response to seeing him eat a cricket for the first time was, "Ew, Mih Lemon, that so nasty..."
Prepare yourself - these next few stories are a bit graphic...
3 of the 4 First Grade classes go to recess together everyday at 12:00noon. All of the students know the rules and boundaries of the playground. I looked around to see one little girl run around the side of the school. I thought she was playing "Hide and Seek", so I told one of my students to run around there and tell her to come back to where we could see her. My student came back and couldn't hardly talk because of the shock and laughter on her face. I asked her what happened, and she replied "Mih Lemon, I can't tell you what had happened." After a few seconds of me trying to get some information out of her, she said "That girl was ova there taking a pee." ..................................
Oh my! What do you say to that? AH!
Sure enough, a few moments later, the little girl came walking around the corner with her pants unzipped. Her teacher asked her what she was doing, and the little girl replied, "I had to use it real bad, and I couldn't make it to the bathroom."
After recess, later in the day, a little boy in another 1st grade class decided he wanted to show a little girl his "middle spot" (which is what they refer to their privates as). While sitting at the table, he unzipped his pants, pulled his "middle spot" out, turned it to the side, and tee-teed on the floor. On. Purpose.
He knew good and well what he was doing! Thankfully, he was not in my class, because I would have had a nervous breakdown...
The very next day, after I had laughed about other teacher's having to deal with bathroom incidents, it happened to me. I had 2 students wet themselves in the same day. Yay me.
One little girl was sitting at my reading table and got this "Oh NO" look on her face. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, "I'm peeing. I didn't know I needed to go." I was in such shock I didn't know what to do. (in her defense, she has started taking a new dosage of medicine, so she was not able to control her bladder)
Then, after recess, my class was in line at the restroom and the little girl who was literally next to walk in looked at me and said "I can't hold it." I hurried her into the bathroom so she could make it in time. (she never once told me she needed to go, and that it was an emergency) As she was walking into the bathroom, I saw it.....She tee-teed standing right in the doorway of the bathroom.
Lucky me - 2 in one day!
Hopefully we have gotten over our bathroom issues, and no more accidents will happen. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Here are some 1st Grade funnies:
One of my reading groups is learning about dinosaurs and fossils. In the story there is a section about a scientist. The scientist is studying dinosaur fossils, so I asked the students if they were scientists what they would want to study...
"cats
grass
dinosaurs
doctors"
We have been learning about plants and how to classify them. I asked the kids to tell about some of the plants they have growing at their houses. One little girl said, "I have a pineapple tree in my backyard."
"WOW! Pineapple tree?! I love pineapple! Will you bring me one?!" - me
"mmhmm, I'll bring you one tomorrow."
The next morning she comes to school and is so excited to bring me my "pineapple."
She reached in her backpack, and with a very proud smile, she pulled out a pine cone. :)
(we learned that pineapple trees don't grow in Mississippi)
We made bracelets out of pipe cleaners and beads that had letters on them. I told the students to get a bead for each of their initials. (MKL would be mine)
Some students have more than one middle name, so they were allowed to get as many beads as they needed. However, some students didn't even know their middle names. Before they could make their bracelets, I had to walk around and make sure they had the letters in the right order. I also wanted them to tell me their full names. One little boy, the one we call "grandpa" had the letters (JDW). I asked him what "D" stood for, and he said "Dawoosie; that's what my momma call me sometimes." We then had a mini-lesson on the difference between a 'nickname' and a 'middle name'.
Before leaving school on Friday, the same little boy looked at me with the sweetest eyes and the most precious smile and said, "Mih Lemon, I wuv you."
That is why I am a teacher. :)
We are starting our 8th week of school on Monday.
2 weeks until Fall Break
7 weeks until Thanksgiving
10 weeks until Christmas
Time is flying by!
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