Stories...

At my school we have Spanish everyday for 30 minutes. I don't teach it, but I have to be in the room while the Spanish teacher is teaching to help manage the students. I often bring in a book to read for guided reading. So the other day S came up to me and asked, "Miss Collett do you always have your nose in a book?" She had a goofy smile on her face and I just smiled and said that I do love to read. It is nice to know that they notice I read, because I want to encourage that of course.

Speaking of Spanish. Every single day without fail I came down the stairs and into my dark, completely silent classroom. I have no idea when this came about, but everyday my students all rush into the room before I get there and then turn off the lights and pretend to be sleeping. I think they hope I will let them take a nap, which I have done before. :) It makes me smile everyday though, because it is just a random personality thing that my class does and I will always remember them for it.

It never falters; I always have a story about Mr. T. This week we were working on vocabulary which I just take out of the read-a-loud book I am reading at the time. I came across the word boisterous, which means lively, energetic, or active, so I made that a vocabulary word and we were talking about the definition and ways to use it. I mentioned that a person with a lot of energy could be boisterous. A girl, A, raised her hand and said, "T is boisterous!" I smiled and agreed with her. It sure made me laugh; I mean even the students know it! Haha!

Another story with Mr T. literally made me leave the room because I was laughing so hard. Every 6 weeks every grade has a week of extra art. Monday is the assembly day when the who 3rd grade gets together and learns about a new artist. Right now they are studying Mary Cassatt. The art teacher was pointing out how she uses lines to point to the more important parts of the painting. The art teacher asked the kids what the woman's shirt in the picture was pointing towards. The answer she was looking for was toward the little girl's face below the woman. Well T says out loud, but more to himself "It is pointing towards the wiener" I about died when I heard him. I looked at him and he immediately regretted saying it, but he was dead serious. I pulled him over and told him that was inappropriate. He said, "But Miss Collett (with a downward motion) it is pointing to the wiener. I said "you can think it, but it is inappropriate to say in school. Then I ran out of the assembly and busted out laughing. The kid never fails to put a smile on my face.

Last T story. I was talking to my principal and somehow T came up. My principal asked me if I had seen the tiger claw T had brought to school. The principal said that T was showing it to people at lunch and the principal actually thought it was really cool. I told him that T had probably not shown me, because he knew I would take it away. I am constantly taking things away from the kid, because everything distracts him. Anyway, after lunch I asked T about it. He looked at me surprised and asked how I knew he had a tiger claw. I of course told him I knew everything and asked to see it. He told me he didn't want to show me because I would take it. I laughed because I was totally spot on when I told the principal why I thought I had not seen it. I love that T knows I will take something away from him if I see him playing with it. I did not take it away from him though, because he had never become a distraction. I just told him as long as I didn't see it I wouldn't take it.

Well that is all for now!