You can't always get what you want...

So something I learned today was that you as a teacher don’t always get to be the good guy… It was kind a sucky lesson to learn… But we’ll get to that part of the day in a bit. The beginning of the day was great, and is what I need to remember when the going gets tough. I was out on morning duty with my kids and my little boys wanted to share with me “The best thing ever” called “Takis”. Now to my understanding a “taki” is a tortilla chip rolled up drenched in flavoring, which I was told is not too spicy. However, it was SO spicy and I was dying… So naturally it made the kids laugh a lot with the promise that on Monday they would bring me the “guacamole” flavor, which isn’t as spicy. Needless to say I'm a little scared mostly because I had the flavor of regular Takis burning my mouth for the rest of the day... We had another bonding experience with our buddies after school got started and we worked with the kindergartners on Haiku poems. It was hilarious and adorable, we had haikus on zombies, mac & cheese, cats, dogs, anything you can imagine, the little ones wanted to write a haiku on. It was also so great to see our 5th graders work with the little ones and teach them about syllables and how to write a haiku. I felt like a proud mother! We then had our special friday recess and since Scott and I are on early duty we had no idea what kind of a situation we left out there. Remember our good friend "Jack" well he and this other kid, we'll call "John" both got brought in from recess for bullying and saying inappropriate things. Jack was saying this that I won't repeat online but know that it's not OK for 5th graders to know that or to talk about it. And John bullied this one kid by telling him that he "effed" Santa up and killed Santa etc; etc;. Needless to say that was the last straw for Scott and I. After we sorted this mess out came back and Scott and I quickly threw together a "lesson" on idioms... Now please imagine Scott saying idioms and me being the less intelligent person who directly acts the idioms out.. Like "kill the lights" for example had me jumping and punching the lights in our classroom... It was hilarious and the kids love it. This lesson on idioms while not something the CSAP will test for is great for second language learners and lets them get a little more comfortable with the language. As it was friday at lunch the 5th grade team leaves campus to have lunch somewhere together. It's so awesome. I could not have asked for a better group of people to work with. They are a wealth of knowledge and simply amazing. In the afternoon Scott and I drafted an email to Jack's mother and let the kids finish their awesome idioms. It was definitely hard to really recognize that I was writing an email home... When did I become someone who could do this? I sometimes forget I graduated 3 months ago from college and that this program is my life now... It's the start of my career, not just a summer job. Writing an email to a child's mother about his difficult behavior definitely slapped my reality back in my face. I'll be interested to see how it affects his actions this upcoming week. After school the staff headed to BJ's for happy hour and it was amazing. Everyone was there, and I really got to understand how much a community the staff at a school is. It was a nice way to start the weekend, I left feeling excited about these next 3 months knowing I would get to spend time with these people.