Tales of a First Grade Nothing

Only 20 days left of school.  This is always a tough time of year for me.  I grow too attached to my students, I think that is why they respond so well to me, because they know how much I truly care for them.  I almost always cry on the last day of school, every year has gotten a little easier, but no ending to a year is easy. 

That brings me to a few more stories that hopefully make you smile from my always entertaining first graders...

A few weeks ago a boy (J) came in with a lime-green and gray striped sweatshirt.  I commented how I had a dress from Old Navy that looked exactly like it.  I told him I wished I could wear it to school but it was a little short.  To which another student (K) responded "A woman can never have things too short," (haha she is wise beyond her years and has dreams of being a fashion designer.)  Needless to say we planned to dress alike just a few days later and I wore the striped lime green and gray dress(with leggings of course) and he wore his striped lime green and gray sweatshirt.  The smile on J's face was like none other I had ever seen.  We even got our picture taken and it will be in the 4th grade slideshow shown at the end of the year.

Because of the type of class I have I am constantly putting names to feelings.  I tell them when I am happy and show it with my body language, expressions etc.  I tell them when I am angry and show them what it looks like.  Well, a few days ago I had to tell them that I was frustrated with them because a few of them were not following the directions even after REPEATING them over and over and over again!  A little girl M came up to me and said, "Mrs. C, it's okay, my mom comes homes frustrated sometimes too."  When I asked her why, she told me, "Because her kids get Fs all the time!"  Her mom is a high school teacher!

This story dates back a few months.  A little girl (T) told me on a Friday that she wouldn't be at school for the following week.  When I asked why she told me her father was renting her family a private jet and they were going to Hawaii for a week.  To say that my students tend to "stretch" the truth is an understatement, so I was a little too excited to catch her in this white lie when she showed up on Monday.  However, she was the one to surprise me!  When I reminded her how she told me she wasn't going to be in school all week, her response was, "Oh, Mrs. C we didn't win the lottery!" haha that was the week where powerball was at an INCREDIBLE dollar amount, her family must have been talking about what they would do if they ever won.  Oh, they do make me laugh!

Today, I overheard an interesting conversation going on...this is the part pf the conversation I started paying attention to.  J was telling a classmate "Yesterday I saw a flying baby?"  "What?"  "Yesterday I saw a flying baby in the sky!"  To which S responded, "That is a darn random thing to say."  HAHA!

Last, but not least, a few weeks ago, I did something pretty embarassing.  It has never happened to me before.  I had just come back from an intense IEP meeting and was a little rattled.  I was calling a reading group to my table and went back to sit in my chair...BUT my chair wasn't there so I fell on my ASS hard.  The students had no idea what to do, some ran over to me and asked if I was okay, others just stood there with their mouths open, while a few fought back some laughter.  I of course shook it off and laughed at myself explaining that even teachers do silly things!  At the end of the day I looked on my desk at the notepad where I write down all the funny/entertaining things that students say/do throughout the week so I can remember to blog about them and this is what I saw, one of my students had written "Mrs. C falls off her chair when it wasn't even there and hurt her wrist, how embarassing!!" 

You just CAN'T make this stuff up...