Ok . . . so remember my terror student? Well, he's back.
If you haven't heard of him or don't remember what I've said and can't click the link, then here's a VERY short run down . . .
He's been at a provisional school, but got kicked out of it (yeah . . . really . . .)
So they sent him back to me . . .
(I don't get it either)
. . . until they can ship him off to a Unit.
He was suspended again on his second day back.
But lucky for me, I have 3 hilarious tales from that day that override the terror-student issue.
i LOVE kids
Story #1
(sniffling Kiera) "Ms. Turner? I'm sorry . . . (bursts into tears) . . . but I really don't want anyone to have a crush on me!"
"Oh, hon, it's ok. Did you know that it just means that he thinks you're really nice? There's nothing wrong with that."
"But I have a crush on someone else."
"Do you know what? There will be a lot of boys who will have crushes on you as you get older. That doesn't mean you have to have crushes on them."
"Do I have to play with them at recess?"
"You should be nice to them. You can play with a lot of friends at recess."
"Ok." (sniffles back to her desk -- 10 minutes later she's as cheerful as ever!)
Story #2
(the other half of story #1)
"What's going on, bud?"
(boy with his hair slicked back and wearing a button-up collared shirt who had stormed out of the classroom) "I dressed up for no reason!"
"That's not true! I think you look very nice today!"
"But I dressed up for Kiera -- and she won't be my girlfriend!"
"That's ok. You can still be her friend!"
"But I try every recess to get a girlfriend! I need a girlfriend!"
"Guess what? I don't have a boyfriend. But, you know what? Girls like it when the boys are being nice and following the rules -- will you come back in?"
"I don't care! I'm going to wash the gel out of my hair . . ."
Haha -- oh the love life of a 6-year-old! :)
and finally . . .
Story #3
My students were getting several new sight words. So far we had only had one "B" word, but finally we were getting another one: "but" . . . which in itself was giving a few of the students a good laugh (nevermind that it's the wrong "butt").
After I had added it to the word wall (wild words in our class -- to go with my jungle theme), one of my students came up to me:
"Teacher? I know something funny on the wild words."
"What's that, Demetreuz?"
"The 'B's'."
"Why are the 'B's' funny?"
"Because it says 'big' 'but'!"
. . . I think I need to switch the order a bit, don't you? . . .
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