Funny Moments during week of craziness...

These are all fun things for me to go back and laugh at...please feel free to laugh along.  I really want to write a book eventually of all these stories.

1. Student is making a face and asks if he can not have a neck (craft stick), so he can go home and pretend to be a doctor like Dr. Bob.  I said, honey Dr. Bob doesn't use tongue depressors.  He is a hearing doctor and uses an otoscope; he always says put nothing in your ears smaller than your elbow.  (Thinking that the next thing may be, can you put a craft stick in your ear.)
2. Student (I'm so excited to take tests).  Me (excuse me?)  Student repeats self.  Me (Are you crazy?  I was laughing...I am not a good test taker, so I don't care to give tests).  Student (I love them.  I guess I am (crazy)).  I love it when a student gets me.
3. A student from another class and a door....really can't say much more than that.
4. I am so much taller can we tape my head higher.  Of course, we did.  This student is almost as tall as me.
5. A bee at lunch while we were eating outside.  One student almost jumping into another students lap.  Then, another student (as I'm saying, just leave it alone) freaking out.  I used my teacher voice about what is appropriate before outside, but inside I was laughing hysterically at the thought of that student jumping into another student's lap.  
6. She just called me prissy.  Student says as she is about to kick against another teacher's class (talking about the other teacher).  Well...I say to her, just show her.  She kicked that ball so hard and then WALKED to 1st base.  They now WANT class shirts.  Oh Vistaprint why don't you make kid sizes.
7. Ballard at kickball throwing off her shoes and playing barefoot, a former student comes up to me and says am I seeing things or is Ballard not wearing any shoes.  (Me): Nope she's not wearing shoes.

When you have a classroom full of boys...

you notice that your strategies change.

Here's some examples:

1. Don't make me turn into the Hulk...you won't like the Hulk.
2. May the Force be with you (as I hand them a calculator to check their work).
3. (pretending to be Darth Vader in first movie where you put your arms on and pretend to squeeze)  I think that they think this is the funniest one (Alice gets this one).
4. Throwing a football far to earn street credit.
5. Relaying everything into a sport...how do you meet friends?  How do I meet friends...then we mention kickball.

Top 2 moments of the day:

1. When my one student who has been struggling to stay focused, figured out a Math problem on the back chalkboard.  I was SOOOOOO excited...I gave him a great job certificate and sent him to Ms. Nguyen...my cheerleader for this student.
2. We also had many compliments for Music today : ).  One student who doesn't care for bucks would have gotten 2 today!!!!!  I pretended like FIREWORKS were going off around him.  

Ace of Base Came in Handy During Math...

These are words that I never thought that I would say.  Yesterday during math, we went from estimating sums to estimating differences.  My students kept wanting to add rather than subtract.  I said something like you need to look at the sign.

Of course the word sign had me thinking about the oldie song, I began to sing...I saw the sign that told me what to do, I saw the sign.  Well, that is our new song for singing in our classroom.  They know are paying attention to the sign (+, -, X, /).  Who knew...

The little things in life : ).