Those are two words that sum up my day. Days like today make me want to call in sick. As I was driving to school this morning, a bird flew into the side of my car. Luckily there wasn't any damage, but it was still odd and how the rest of my day would be.
The kids came in and were chatty, chatty, chatty. I'm now in the search for new strategies to get a class quiet. Disrespectful came in and said his last day is Friday. Did you see the smile come over my face? It was there...well, until my conference period when I called his mom to check and she said it wasn't true. He will be moving sometime, eventually, "soon", but not this week. She's having too many health problems to leave. Poor thing...I hope she gets well soon! ;)
Recess for my misbehaving, talkative squirts is dwindling fast. I do have about 5 kids who are on task and making good choices 99% of the time and then another 5 who are on task about 75% of the time and then the last 50% is why I want to call in sick. We manage to make it to specials (i.e., time for me to breath and regroup) and then it's another struggle until lunch. They just won't stop talking and I refuse to teach over them. Yes, there are kids who do want to listen, but the others are so disruptive that it's impossible.
Yay...finally lunch and recess for as long as it takes me to have the urge to line them up to go in. I had a majority of the class sitting out some time for recess. Some of the boys decided that they wanted to throw rocks at each other's heads. They are tattling on each other non-stop. I separate them even more and they still decide they are going to throw rocks. I've asked them to stop along with the other 4th grade teachers and also a 3rd grade teacher. They should have just stopped, but that would be too easy. Because they didn't, the first thing I did when I got back to our room was to write two of them up. I wrote referrals and said, "Take these to the office. They will want to talk to you." They came back later with the referral that said they both got one day of In School Suspension. This was a minor success in regards to my day and for some reason made me feel wonderful!
I'm going to be out for the next two days at a prep class for an ExCet test I am taking next weekend and it made me feel a lot better that the sub will not have to handle those two boys along with everyone else. Too bad I couldn't be there tomorrow to enjoy their absences myself. :)
The kids came in and were chatty, chatty, chatty. I'm now in the search for new strategies to get a class quiet. Disrespectful came in and said his last day is Friday. Did you see the smile come over my face? It was there...well, until my conference period when I called his mom to check and she said it wasn't true. He will be moving sometime, eventually, "soon", but not this week. She's having too many health problems to leave. Poor thing...I hope she gets well soon! ;)
Recess for my misbehaving, talkative squirts is dwindling fast. I do have about 5 kids who are on task and making good choices 99% of the time and then another 5 who are on task about 75% of the time and then the last 50% is why I want to call in sick. We manage to make it to specials (i.e., time for me to breath and regroup) and then it's another struggle until lunch. They just won't stop talking and I refuse to teach over them. Yes, there are kids who do want to listen, but the others are so disruptive that it's impossible.
Yay...finally lunch and recess for as long as it takes me to have the urge to line them up to go in. I had a majority of the class sitting out some time for recess. Some of the boys decided that they wanted to throw rocks at each other's heads. They are tattling on each other non-stop. I separate them even more and they still decide they are going to throw rocks. I've asked them to stop along with the other 4th grade teachers and also a 3rd grade teacher. They should have just stopped, but that would be too easy. Because they didn't, the first thing I did when I got back to our room was to write two of them up. I wrote referrals and said, "Take these to the office. They will want to talk to you." They came back later with the referral that said they both got one day of In School Suspension. This was a minor success in regards to my day and for some reason made me feel wonderful!
I'm going to be out for the next two days at a prep class for an ExCet test I am taking next weekend and it made me feel a lot better that the sub will not have to handle those two boys along with everyone else. Too bad I couldn't be there tomorrow to enjoy their absences myself. :)
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