(As promised, here is a picture from our field trip to the Children's Museum.)Q came into this morning, excited for life. Granted, he normally is this way and normally it drives me crazy, but today, he was a controlled excited for life (as opposed to spazztastic).
Q: "Miss F, I have a secret. But I can't tell you until tomorrow. Do you want to know the secret?"
M: "Then it wouldn't be a secret anymore, now would it?"
Q: [smiles and wide eyes] "Mmm hmm. But do you like chocolate?"
M: "Oh yes, definitely dark chocolate."
Q: "I know! I got you some chocolate."
M: "Are you telling me hints, Q??"
Q: [big eyes and covers mouth with both hands]
All day it was about this secret. All day he pretty much told me what the secret was. Tomorrow is our class' holiday party before Christmas break. It makes sense.
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Mrs. MS has a boy in her class who tends to be a very antsy person. DM has a lot of low spectrum autistic tendencies (i.e., he's intellectually brilliant), so she decided to give him a piece of yarn. Well, this proved to be very successful. TOO successful. More successful to the point where DM talked to this string, sang to this string, wrote letters to the string, and read to the string. I didn't believe her at first, but then I watched him. DM was still going to town with this string! It's REALLY comical to think about the extent DM was taking this yarn. I suggested that she give him other colors of string to see what he did. I was fascinated watching him because it wasn't some fancy shiny toy; it was a piece of yarn! Well, he was given a piece of red string. He seriously FREAKED OUT in glee!
Wow is all I had to say. Very interesting. Very amusing.
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We had our staff holiday party this evening. It wasn't a normal holiday party. At the beginning to set the mood and tone, the principal chewed us out for this week's 4 1/2 benchmark test scores. The whole school didn't do so well. So we got shot in the leg with "Enjoy your break because when you come back, you're going to have to work harder. Get your remediation plans in order. Come January 5th, get ready to start teaching in other grades. Etc. You suck as teachers."
Okay, so maybe the last phrase wasn't really said, but still. It was a kill to the good ole festive morale!
After that, we started playing White Elephant/Pollyanna/Ain't it a Shame. Apparently we weren't peppy enough, and we got chastised for it! The principal chewed us out for not being excited! Ummm, reality check. We just were yelled at for doing a sucky job? And now we were expected to perform joyfully in a game? Ummm, reality check. Hot cold, hot cold. Crikey cheese!
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Just two more days, and it's CHRISTMAS BREAK! I'm down to 19 children (from 24!!), and I'm pretty much guaranteed more after the break... BUT at least I'll have some time to recup. Let's just pray I get some more girls.
-- Miss Chelsea :)
