- This morning during Morning Reading, I gave out my first sign in. JA was being a complete attitude queen. She would mumble when she was asked to read and when I would ask her to speak up, she would yell. Then at one point, she got up and started to leave so she could put her jacket in her locker. When I told her no, she started to argue. The assistant principal was outside of the room (by chance) and came in to quickly put out that fire. Then, when I asked her to speak up when she was reading again, she started to argue again saying I never asked anyone else to speak up (probably because they don't mumble...). NHCS only has five rules and one of them is "Every adult in the school is your teacher, and it is your job to follow their directions." Not only was she not following my directions, she was arguing with me. Therefore, she got signed in, which means her mom will be getting a phone call about her behavior.
- About halfway through the morning, Ms. Kimenker, the head of discipline for the school came to my classroom looking for me. I thought it was about JA, but it was actually about KC (the one who got the behavior report). Last week, a 5th grader grabbed him and was yelling at him for bullying his younger brother. I heard about this and knew that Ms. K was trying to decipher what was actually going on. I went and talked to her about KC and how he isn't really a bully, but he just doesn't really know how to control his emotions. Well, apparently, KC has a hard time sitting still on the bus and kind of causes all kinds of trouble (which I could definitely see). So anyways, she just wanted to follow up on his behavior and get a more detailed description of what he's like in class.
- Ravi, Raina, and Nikeeta, who are in charge of our training portion of City Year came to observe us and make sure that the training was useful to our school and see if there was any type of training that they were missing. My one suggestion to them was Conflict Management for recess. The number of children who end up in tears over some sort of argument at recess is five times as many compared to any other part of the day. I think they had fun. They got to see almost every grade I think, which I'm sure is helpful. My kids thought we were getting new City Years. Sorry guys, you're stuck with me all year.
- At final circle, Erica and Danielle told us we had to meet at the blacktop in five minutes. We were all confused because normally when we go somewhere like that, it means we're in trouble/something has happened. Luckily, that was not the case. We split up into lower school and upper school and had a marshmellow dodgeball tournament. We lined up on either side of the blacktop with marshmellows lined down the center. All rules of dodgeball applied and war began! It was so much fun and soon enough, the afterschool kids joined in. Unfortunately, the upper school team beat us 2 games to 1, but it was so much fun. The younger kids even ate a few of the (dirty) marshmellows. Apparently, people had been complaining about how Tuesdays are kind of rough, so Danielle and Erica are going to do something along these lines every week. I don't hate it! :)
Luckily, my kids weren't too cracked out on candy and sugar. I managed to survive the day and even get home at a reasonable hour. Happy (no shave) November everyone!
"A smile is a curve that straightens everything out."
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