An Ordinary Day in the STEM Lab!

I got to love my kids. These are my birthday presents. 1. A card from one of my last year student's brother. I don't know her brother, never met him. But..... he felt the need to make me a card to let me know how much he loves me. Too sweet. 2. An Olivia the pig storage box. Before you ask...yes it is used.  She didn't have any $. I LOVE it because she took time out of her day to think about me. If you don't love it then your heart is made of stone. 3. Some aluminum foil gifts. Now, I have to admit when she first brought it to me I was like "WHAT DO YOU HAVE?!?!?!?!"  I just knew she had some food or something dripping from them. But nope, they were completely dry. Then she says "it's for you to put your pennies in". Ohhhhhh, I see. Thank you dear, I love it. 4. One of my kids wrote me a sentence for my birthday. Why? Because I told them the best birthday present they can give me is to do their best, answer some questions, & do their work...

On Monday, one of my students threw up on the table while sitting in her seat. She just sat there in it. When I told her to go to the nurse, she gets up & there is vomit dripping from her forearms. YUCK! Then another day one of the kids farted as loud as a grown ass MAN. I tried to ignore it but of course the other kids made a BIG deal about it. Then the little joker kept farting. YUCK! So during writing, one of my kids wrote:  "jfgeesc has". He came up to me extremely exited. Student: Mrs. Reid I can read my sentence! Mrs. Reid: Okay, sweetie read it to me. Student:  "I can blow your house". Mrs. Reid: Wow! That is awesome. You are doing such a great job working today. I wasn't lying. It's hard for this student to do anything. That was great for him. Last thing: I was listening to the kids talk. So there is a really smart kid who has a slight speech impediment. So he said: "Hey Minny"! She said: "My name is MILLY"! (with an...

I haven't posted in a while. Well we were too busy testing ALL week. Why are we testing in Kindergarten? I don't know but it is depressing. Why? Well, you think you are a good teacher until your kids are tested on what they have been taught.  Some of the answers they chose was so disappointing. A lot of them don't think first about what they are asked to do on the problems. My kids think everything is subtraction since that was our last major math concept we learned. We aren't even on subtraction any more.  When we were actually doing subtraction they were adding everything, lol. Ey yah eyy Well, it is Spring Break for Mrs. Reid's kindergarten class. I will post again in 2 weeks. Until then, enjoy.

What a day! I am out of the room testing my kids ALL day. When I came back in my room I was told that he had another accident. I bet you say who? You have to read my previous post. Anyway, this is how I was told it went: Kid: ewwwwww he stinks! Teacher: Awww he just past gas. Kid:  Then what's that brown stuff on the floor? It stinks! Teacher: Oh My! Run to the nurse. The kid in question: Who me? (looking puzzled) Teacher: Go! Go! Hurry. Run! So another teacher, who used to be a nurse comes & clean the floor, his chair & sprayed the room out. I am glad because I don't do crap or vomit.  I was just about to leave for recess for the rest of the day, lol. Shout out to the best custodian, we didn't even have to call you.

We started the day off with Wreck It Ralph. We had our 9-week attendance movie.  The students that have perfect attendance are entitled to a movie & snacks. Afterwards, we made egg baskets. Then it was the finale.....THE EGG HUNT (In my very excited screaming kid voice). The kids REALLY enjoyed themselves.

It must be a full moon.  In our writing block today myself and my ESOL teacher both had it up to here.  (Just imagine, lol).  Something about the kids that was just not working out.  We would tell them to do one thing and they will do another.  One student was writing a story about a pig.  She was told to draw a picture of her animal.  Why did she draw a butterfly????? Why, why, why????   I asked another student what does a dog look like?  He said a gorilla......  Why, why, Why?!?!?!?  Sometimes I want to have a tantrum, lol. But the end of the day trumped the beginning.  So we are writing a response to literature.  I passed out paper.  No later than 10 minutes later I called the students up to turn in their paper.  One student brought his paper with some brownish green substance on it. Me:  "What is this on your paper?" Student: "Huh?" Me:  "Throw it in the trash" At the same time, I smelled som...