School

So remember my last entry where I was excited about K-2? Yeah, I’ll take a little of that excitement back…but just a little.  Most of them are very well behaved and since some of them were in my class last year, they know my expectations.  There’s this one little boy I had to deal with yesterday, Sam.  He’s in the class with his older brother, which doesn’t help because they just talk and talk and talk.  Anyway, he was causing some trouble so I put him in timeout and he cried! I’m used to it so it didn’t phase me, but what I did realize is that I disciplined him in front of the whole class, which probably made him feel embarassed, hence the crying.  I thought about this later and next time I’ll probably engage the rest of the class in something and discipline the child quietly.

Later, Sam was causing trouble again! So, another timeout (but less obvious to other students) and this time, he ran away! I didn’t know where he was and couldn’t leave the rest of my class to go look for him.  Then I figured out his mom teaches dance right across the hall and figured he probably ran in there! Little twerp!  Anyway, I went in after the kids were gone and talked to his mom about the timeouts and him not being able to follow directions in my classroom.  She looks at me and says "Well, he’s only four!"  WHAT?!?!?!?!?! He’s not supposed to even be in my class! No wonder he doesn’t know how to behave! He’s never been in a classroom situation like that before. UGH! I told mom that it didn’t matter, he still needed to know how to act in my classroom.  She kind of gave me a look like I was silly or something, but if you’re going to send your child to my class to be babysat, they need to behave because their misbehavior disrupts all of my other good students! I was a little peeved!  Even the secretary, the "vice-principal", and Amy said he should not be in that class. Geez!

So, on a happy note, we got to take a tour of our new school yesterday.  It seems like there’s still so much to do, but we have been told Spetember 30th is the finish date so we have faith!  I got to see my classroom.  It’s smaller that I expected, especially since LeAnn kept saying it was huge!  Amy and I hung out for a while trying to figure out where we were going to put everything and how we would arrange our rooms.  It’ll be tricky, but hopefully we can do it.  The school is beautiful and we were all smiles and "oohs" and "aahs".  Everybody is very excited!  Wish I had pics to show you all, but I don’t!

That’s all!

~JC~