Days are Escaping Me!

Guys! I am way behind!

The last couple weeks have been madness! I promise to go back and write interesting factoids for you on the days I've skipped this weekend!

For now, here's a picture of today's project!

Scarecrows and Scareteachers

Today was not the best day. It seems that behaviors are going downhill for reasons I'm not sure of. Tomorrow we are trying some new things.

To top it off, this evening has also been stressful. Namely, because I had classwork to do and the Internet it not working well. It took a very long time.

Since this is short, I will appease you with a picture. These are the scarecrow glyphs my little "scareteachers" made yesterday and today. Aren't they cute? Can you find mine? (Hint: the "stitches" on the mouth show how old the person who made it is....)

Oh, and by the way, this is only about a third of the bulletin board....in case you were wondering why there were so few of them.

Squirt Guns and Tackling

....all at recess.

That was about the point my day started to go downhill!

The morning was good today. The kids were super excited to see the pointer I bought/made, and they were also happy to hear I'd put batteries in the Leap Pad pens so they could actually use them! (By the way, those Leap Pad TAG pens are freaky! Just tap the pages and it reads it! I marvel at their magic.

The afternoon had bits of ok mixed up with madness. As mentioned, one child tackled another at recess, got spotted by another teacher and got written up because of it (he did the same thing last week). At a later recess another girl was spotted with a small squirt gun. And since the school/district has a no tolerance policy, she went home for the rest of the day. The remaining kiddos sort of managed to hold it together until it was time to clean up and line up for P.E. I felt like I was trying to corral a room full of puppies. It was ridiculous. I told them they'd have to practice that with me during recess tomorrow until they can do it right. Something tells me they'll get it right pretty quickly.

Supplies!

Today was a bit of a challenge.

We also sorted supplies...which took forever and made me a little insane.

I may add to this tomorrow...but for now that's all.