Tackiness!!

The past week has been “Spirit Week” at school. We do this week to get the kiddos pumped up about the Homecoming game. I must admit that I think the teachers at the middle school get more excited about spirit days than the kiddies do. I am pleased to announce that I did dress up every day this year. Last year was not as easy because I was pregnant and my fun clothes did not fit.

Monday: Crazy Socks—just wore striped socks that didn’t match my outfit

Tuesday: Pink Day (Breast Cancer Awareness)—pink colored jeans

Wednesday: College Day—white MSU golf tank top

Thursday: Tacky Day—a vintage dress that was extremely bright, a green tie dye scarf around my waste, a striped jacket, a big fancy headband, and to “top it off” new balance tennis shoes with ankle socks. I felt a little bit like Carol Lucius with the tennis shoes on with the dress.

Friday: Blue, Gold, and White Day—Homecoming T-Shirt and jeans

I wrote in my student’s planners everyday what they should wear the next day to school…. Some participated. Some didn’t. I think all the teachers on my hall at school enjoy participating just to do something out of the ordinary. We get pretty tired of wearing drab teacher clothes. I am pretty pumped about the recognition that me and a couple other teachers got over the intercom Thursday for Tacky Day. We rocked tacky/mismatched clothes. Mrs. Tiner and Mrs. Burns talked me into dressing up that morning. I didn’t think I had time to get anything together that morning so I told them I didn’t think I would participate. It seems like dressing up badly takes longer than dressing up nicely. I apparently did a pretty good job looking bad. The kids loved it and I had such a fun day at school. Homecoming week fell on such a lame week this year. We had nine weeks tests all week. Report cards are also going out next week so that means that we have been busy getting all graded work completed, redoing work, etc so we needed a little fun in our lives this week and “Spirit Week” was just what the doctor ordered.

Hollywood is in "time out".... The sandles and socks were the best.

My kiddies think it is funny to use my camera.

Tackiness in deep thought.

Now you can see the full effect!!

 

I teach a classroom full of very special kiddos. They are absolutely hilarious. They keep us entertained like none other. If we didn’t laugh we would probably cry a lot. I have six fourth graders and 5 third graders. Their functional levels range from Pre-K to high third grade. That means I have some kids that cannot write their first and last names successfully in the same classroom with students that are reading grade level chapter books. It is quite a challenging job. No one would believe what we go through unless they spent a day or two in our room. I will admit that some days I want to throw the towel in. Other days I have an amazing time. With saying that, I am always very thankful for the job that I have. It took one group of my kids a whole month to remember what month it was. As soon as they learned the name of the month the month was over and we had to start all over. When I say that my kids are hilarious…. I mean it. I will leave you with a few examples (names have been left out and some clues that may lead you to figure out the names of the kiddies):

1.       Me:  What country do you live in?

Student: LRL Road
 

2.       Me: What month is it?

Student: Tuesday

3.       Student 1: I know my numbers 1-10 and my letters A-Z.

Student 2: No disrespect dude, but you should know your numbers 1-100.

4.       Me being very aggravated and sarcastic when one of them left their book in the classroom:  Did you really leave your book in her room?

Student: Yes, I seriously did.

 

5.       Student: It is not April Fool’s Season, that’s in January and it is always on a Sunday.

 

6.       Scenario: We were doing Case21 tests this week (9 weeks test that are geared towards MCT2). I told my kids to go back over their tests and check their work. Well, one of my babies took me very literally. She erased all her answers that she had bubbled in on her answer document and put check marks in the bubbles. She “checked her work” didn’t she?

 

7.       Student: I need to go to the nurse.

Teacher:  For what?

Student: My stomach hurts.

Teacher: Do you need to go to the bathroom?

Student: No, it ain’t that kind of hurt. I ate some real weird beans last night.
 

8.       Student: He sells drugs.

Me: How do you know that?

Student: His teeth are all messed up.
 

I know there are plenty more examples that I will think about as soon as I publish this, but these are just a few that have happened lately.