Today, a Holiday
Today is a holiday to celebrate a small aboriginal war that happened in the area. It isn't a holiday for the whole country, or even the province or area, just a few Native Reserves participate. So today, I get to work all day long without any children to get in the way (HA!). I sure would get a lot more done if I didn't have to teach those children, just plan for them.
Cute things that happened so far this year:
"Look at you working so hard, you're on fire!"
"What?! Where?!" student starts looking at her clothes.
"No, no, you're not really on fire. You're just working really hard."
"My dad told me never to play with fire."
"Your dad is right."
This one was told to me by a parent of a 5 year old after we had finished our unit on atomic theory (I go hard in Science for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 students).
"Your tire needs some air."
"Air is gas. My tire needs some gas."
"No, your tire needs some air."
"Mom, air is a gas. It's the atomic theory, don't you know."
I told you, I push them hard in science while their brains still work and before they get all sulky in the high school grades. Next step is getting calculus in there too.
Other than that, the kids are fine except we seem to have an epidemic of FFFFFF ing LICE in here and I can't stand it. The health nurse won't come in and all the parents are complaining and what can I do, I am not checking their heads because I have already caught it from them once and I don't want it again. Plus, I can't even tell the student, you have lice, go tell your parents to get the shampoo and clean out the house. It's too embarrassing for them. What the hell? It is rampid here, there is no stopping it. And it all starts in my classroom and then they take it to there siblings and it gets into other classrooms. Today I am fumigating while they aren't here. Lice like clean heads, so I have stopped shampooing my hair and I eat a lot of garlic to keep the kids away from me.
Cute things that happened so far this year:
"Look at you working so hard
"What?! Where?!" student starts looking at her clothes.
"No, no, you're not really on fire. You're just working really hard."
"My dad told me never to play with fire."
"Your dad is right."
This one was told to me by a parent of a 5 year old after we had finished our unit on atomic theory (I go hard in Science for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 students).
"Your tire needs some air."
"Air is gas. My tire needs some gas."
"No, your tire needs some air."
"Mom, air is a gas. It's the atomic theory, don't you know."
I told you, I push them hard in science while their brains still work and before they get all sulky in the high school grades. Next step is getting calculus in there too.
Other than that, the kids are fine except we seem to have an epidemic of FFFFFF ing LICE in here and I can't stand it. The health nurse won't come in and all the parents are complaining and what can I do, I am not checking their heads because I have already caught it from them once and I don't want it again. Plus, I can't even tell the student, you have lice, go tell your parents to get the shampoo and clean out the house. It's too embarrassing for them. What the hell? It is rampid here, there is no stopping it. And it all starts in my classroom and then they take it to there siblings and it gets into other classrooms. Today I am fumigating while they aren't here. Lice like clean heads, so I have stopped shampooing my hair and I eat a lot of garlic to keep the kids away from me.
posted by Muss at 10:05 am
2 Comments:
LICE! I remember we had an epidemic at school when I was about 7. My mother freaked out to put it mildly. She bought a bulk pack of Nittex and washed our heads like there was no tomorrow. We didn't have lice. :)
an outbreak. i remember kindergarten. it was terrible.
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