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.