Feels Like a Full Moon

Just ask any teacher and chances are they will tell you that it seems like kids are just a little more wound up than usual when it's a full moon.  That what it felt like today.  Unfortunately, it's not a full moon so the kids today were just rowdy for no reason.

I got called this morning shortly after I got up to go to this bilingual 3rd grade that I've been to quite a few times this year.  All times before I've enjoyed them and found them to be a pretty nice, well-behaved group of kids.  Today though things were just off.  We had lots of problems with talking out of turn, people of out their seats and generally ignoring directions.  We didn't get to all the stuff on the schedule, and they had to sit and listen to me talk about my expectations and how they weren't meeting them.  It wasn't the most fun.

And to add to the madness: all the clocks in the building were one hour ahead today.  So I was faced with kids convinced that it was lunch time even though it was way too early as well and the never-ending stream of "what time is is?" questions.  I tried to tell them that they could look at the clock and just subtract one hour, but that went right over their heads, so they just asked me over and over and over!

So it wasn't an all-time fun day, but neither was it an all-time horrible day.  It just wasn't that enjoyable.  Oh well, the pay's the same!