Kindergarten Update

Being that my entire life is taken up with school these days - this is pretty much all I have to write about.  Even my pregnancy has taken a back seat to this.  And I don't have pictures yet, because my camera is at school so I can take pictures of my kids for their things we are making for back to school night.  Anyway, I digress.  I am happy to say that things are improving.  We are definitely working our way into a nice routine and building habits and relationships; and most of the time I really do enjoy teaching kindergarten.  I have learned that its best to let bad days and bad moments roll off your back and its even better when you can laugh at it.  And so, I give you my top 10 moments of kindergarten so far (that I can remember):

10. I had to drag a kid (literally drag on his bottom) down the hall because he didn't want to come to school and his mom just stood there making it a million times worse.  (note to parents: as much as your heart tells you otherwise, it is best to just leave and let them cry it out.  They'll stop the sooner you are gone - I PROMISE). 

9. I have a girl that I decided is a dog in disguise.  She has already chewed through stick glue, a pencil, scissors, her bus card, and a white board pen.

8. I had a boy tell me he had to go to the bathroom and then made a break for it the second he was out the door.  A proctor finally caught him in the parking lot.  (Where were you planning on running kid?  We are surrounded by miles and miles of desert! - no seriously, its like Holes where our school is).  

7.  When I told a mom that her son didn't know his colors she told me that he was a "free thinker."  Apparently colors are relative these days.  Blue is not blue folks - it will now be referred to as "water." (that is seriously the example she gave me - that he, at one time, called blue, water.  Who knows what his free thinking mind calls it now).   

6. I have two boys that think if they close their eyes while I'm disciplining them I will disappear and they won't get in trouble.  One will even put a pencil in front of his face as if that hides him.

5. I had one girl tell me she could hear my baby crying from inside my tummy. (Wow - you have really good ears!)

4. I have a boy that finishes every sentence with the statement, "I'm super star smart!"  This same kid also insists on saying "Good underwater" instead of "Good morning."  I don't know where that one came from.   

3. I had a parent demand to know how her daughter scraped her knee at recess.  Well, let me think...she fell??

2. All in one day I had boys sent home for: throwing sticks and rocks, biting office staff, punching, pushing, throwing food, and kicking the principal.  And it wasn't just my kids.  The principal actually declared August 12th, as stricken from the kindergarten calendar forever more (ok not really - next August 12th we'll still have kindergarten, but she did say it). 

1. After looking for a student for 30 minutes, he was finally found butt naked in the bathroom.  (I don't know - don't ask.)

There are so many more things that happen every day and I just don't remember them.  Kindergarten may not be for the faint of heart, but its definitely humorous.