EW EW EW

So today started out in a not so awesome way…. And by not so awesome I mean the kids were coming in and doing attendance when… MS. DETMER MS. DETMER MS. DETMER…. BRAYAN JUST THREW UP….. I wasn’t really paying attention to what was going on as they were coming in so I thought they meant outside… then I realized… oh no, wait, it’s EWWWW yes. There was vomit all in the front part of our classroom. As soon as I saw it… my body automatically reacted and for those of you who know me know what happened…. I dry heaved… and knew that if I smelled the vomit, I would definitely follow suit…. So Scott called in the clean up on aisle 20 and I tried to exit the classroom as stealth as I could since I was on the verge of losing it…. So while the vomit was being cleaned in our room (the custodial staff is heaven sent) Scott and I just hung out in the hallway… aka vomit-free zone or safety depending on how you look at it… The kids went to technology today, yes it was Friday, because we had to switch our spot with Wednesday just for this week. While they were gone, we planned our expedition reading groups. When the kids came back Scott refreshed their knowledge on the French-Indian war and why it was so important to our learning. While he was doing that I was placing some “artifacts” on the tables for them to identify and talk about. They were all replicas but that’s beside the point. The kids then wandered around the room trying to identify the different things and figure out why they were important. There was a quarter from 1776, stamps, paintings, the declaration of independence... you get the idea. There was one painting of the French invading Yorktown from the 7 years war. At the bottom was a description of the battle and the painting… in French. So Scott had me read it to the kids and they LITERALLY lost their minds. They were sooooo into having me speak French. It was adorable and obviously one of those moments that make you realize how awesome teaching is. When we debriefed the artifacts and how important it was to look critically at different objects. Somehow, magically by then it was lunchtime. Now normally on Fridays the 5th grade team goes out to lunch but today I was running the girl’s anti-bullying club aka where we, as educators, try to get the girls to learn more about each other so they won’t bully each other… So I was left back at school to run this… so when recess came along the girls came down and we had a little bonding session. Apparently I did a good job because it was all the girls could talk about for the rest of the afternoon… Hopefully these positive feelings between them continue but who knows…. Girls will be girls…. The afternoon sped by with reading groups and math groups... They started these HUGE math grids and of course, like all days 2:30 rolled around WAY before I was ready... I know it's silly and TOTALLY contrary to what I felt as a student but man... can we make school longer?