Middle School Fever

Lots of the kids in my class today had this. It was a 4/5 blend, and the fifth graders were acting a lot like sixth graders - loud and sort of smart-mouthy. But they weren't too terrible. My biggest problem was a couple boys who just could NOT get along. I was forever telling them to stay away from each other.

The rest of the class was just really chatty. And oddly, also eager to "help" me - meaning, whenever I'd look like I was about to say something they'd all yell out to rest of the class, "Everybody BE QUIET!!!". Yeah, didn't help so much.

Thankfully, we had an assembly at the end of the day so I didn't have to do anything for 40 minutes or so. And the teacher was at the school so she came back to her room after the kids were done and basically told me I didn't need to stay - so I left a few minutes early.