full moon?

The last couple days have been crazy. Can we blame the full moon? I had to write up two boys yesterday afternoon. One I could see visibly trying to pull his words back into his mouth. Unfortunately it didn't work, and I don't tolerate kids mouths when they say things like "damn you" to me. One of my choir students punched a 2nd grader in the face. I try to teach him to hit a drum instead, the conga doesn't turn black and blue, but it hasn't worked yet. He is one who was drafted into choir due to his great recess punching skill... The police were at the school for two hours yesterday. No one knows why. They called for back up as the buses showed up. I also had to move classes around so I can have a 3rd grade AND a 4th grade choir because I may be amazing (and humble) but the sheer noise of 85 kids holding papers and trying to read (and still many of them being at that mumbling under the breath reading phase) it's just too loud, and they are all on task, and James isn't punching anyone, and Dominic took his meds, and Mikey is not rolling on the floor... so I made two choirs so I have half the kids in each.

and we found out that my little friend Jacob is coming back. Do you remember my little friend Jacob???? the ODD one? The teacher that gets him is almost ready to start drinking and he hasn't had his first day yet. I, of course, with my great skill do not rise above playing his ODD game, I just make sure to win it... I can be passive aggressive with the best of him "I am going to set this tambourine on the floor here, and i hope no one would touch it... it they do, they better not play a steady beat with this song" (within moments we have a lovely tamborine beat from Jacob...

And tonight is McTeacher's night, so I get to go serve my students some quality food at MickeyD's. Fun, Fun.

babies and a camera

two, no, three great achievements of the day. 1) I bought a digital camera (finally--and got a good deal with a big rebate plus a teacher discount at office depot) 2) I took pictures of all my tiny little quilt blocks and loaded them onto flickr (click here to see them in all their insanity) 3)I went to home depot and successfully purchased a stick to hang the quilt mom made me... I felt proud of myself for my hardware mastery...