Last week was an unexpected break for our school system due to SNOW!! Lots of snow!! Its been a long time since I have seen that much snow and it stick around for as long as it did! We had about 4-6 inches depending on where you live and where you measured the snow :) It was absolutely beautiful and I, along with family and friends enjoyed playing in the snow and slowing life down just a little! I was lazy the whole week so going back to school Tuesday (Monday was MLK day) was a little rough or at lest tiring. With weekends included we were out of school 10 days and had only been back to school after Christmas break for 4 days! My students however weren't tired at all unlike me, I think they were very excited to be out of their houses and around friends again! No tears (me or the students LOL) so Tuesday was a successful day!
Our topic of study for January is Winter. Obviously since it is winter we talk about snow and other things that go along with it. Little did we know they would actually get to experience so much snow! It has made discussing the winter season a lot of fun!! Typically we don't get snow or a lot of snow here, so to get the students to really experience snow we use fake snow. There is this stuff called Insta-Snow. It is this white powdering substance that when mixed with water it turns to snow immediately!! Pretty amazing if you ask me since, but when we did this activity today the kids were not too overly thrilled. Who would be with a bowl of snow when you just had a yard full of snow last week :) They still thought the activity was cool though. They first at to look at the powder and guess what they thought it was, then they felt it and smelled it to make guesses as well. Overall great activity, and I think they will enjoy it more once they get to play with during free centers.
So as bad as I hate it, I do have to get on to my students occasionally. I know it is for their own good so they will know how to act in a classroom next year. And my expectations are high for them no matter how they are because I want to help them to become their best! Truth be told, they have me wrapped around their little fingers! After I get on to them, I just want to go hug them and say I'm sorry I really hate being that way! I just love kids especially my students so much and I want to spoil them as well as teach them! I want them to look back fondly over their years in school and remember their teacher because she was nice, loving, kind, and helped them to become better students. I love my job and can't imagine doing anything else!!
Now great funny stories yet to tell, but these two were just kinda funny moments that happened today!
* This little girl, we will call her 18, is a very smart girl and very literal. She is always telling tall tales and cracking me up. Usually her stories consist of something she has heard another student say or something we have done or talked about in class. Today though, while mixing the snow and talking about how we CAN'T eat this snow and that it is NOT real snow (remember they are only 4 lol). I was trying to explain that is was like real snow but was not real snow. She looks at me and says so it's "Snowish" I loved that she said that because I am guilty of adding -ish to words especially if I can't think of the correct word or a better word to describe something. Too cute I thought!
*The second story is about another little girl, we will her 17, you may get lots of stories about 17. She is always up to something and keeping us entertained even when she is in trouble its something entertaining such as in this story. Every morning we sing certain songs. They don't have to sing if they don't want to but they are supposed to sit quietly. 17 never sits quietly partially because she is a very young 4 and partially because she just loves to talk. Today we were singing our weather song (after we had a little class meeting about following rules and expected behaviors throughout the day) and while I was singing she looks up at me and just starts talking I have no idea about what. I give her that teacher eye (yes we all have them) and started to sing louder in hopes she would stop talking. I should have known better lol she just started talking louder so I could hear her over my singing. After asking her to stop talking, I had to laugh because her reaction was just to obvious and I should have seen it coming.
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