A Pledge to be Good

A few weeks ago I was in a classroom and over the recess 2 of the boys in my classroom had an altercation and got suspended... I told my husband about it because then I had 2 less kids in the room and sometimes your day just goes better with 2 less kids in the room!

The next day I was in a different school in a different division and the boys started the day off by writing this on the board

I wasn't sure what to expect.  

Was it going to be a terrible day because they knew they might not listen well?

Was it going to be a slightly better day because at last 3 of the 13 boys had signed?

Well, as it turns out I didn't have that difficult of a time with this class because this was the day nearly every boy in the class got in trouble at recess and had to spend part of the classes they had with me apologizing to all of the classes that were below them.

I'm not sure what happened... I was just happy to lose half of my class to it!

Then the next day...

I did not have any students in my class get in trouble.

And here we all thought I was on some kind of kids getting trouble with school administration streak.

This Week At School

Here are 5 things that happened this week at school:

1.

I taught kindergarten and they were practicing for their Christmas concert.  We Will Jingle was the best song they sang.

Why?

Probably because they were wearing sunglasses and looked kinda cute and also kinda cool.

Oh, and they knew all the words.

2.

A pink Christmas tree

3.

I taught dance class!

And yes we used the barres (sp?)

4.

The day I taught dance class we also had an evacuation of the school.

It was not a drill.

It was below -30

We went to the church next door so we wouldn't freeze.

Also, you know how they tell you to leave everything behind in the event of a fire?  I definitely took everything with me (and took the time to put my boots on because we weren't allowed shoes in the dance studio)

5.

Finally, I attended one Christmas concert in the afternoon. 

 The highlight was this song:

Name Art

I found these pictures in a classroom a while ago (my guess it was likely one of their first art projects for the year) and thought they were nice.  I looked up how to make them and it seems super easy.  AND I've always found the art projects on this blog to go over really well.  AND, if you don't want to do the name the post is about abstract art and they look great too!

Look through the comments and read the post for more great ideas

SNOW DAY

Sometimes even the substitute gets a snow day

3/5 of the divisions I work for have cancelled classes today

5/5 divisions I work for have no buses running today.

the view out my door

I for one am glad I have the day off as I have a long list of things I want to get accomplished today.

At the top of the list is to attempt to revive this blog because it is no longer the beginning of the school year!...we'll see how long I'm able to keep this going.