It was one of those days....

That started out soooo bad but ended up so great....like that time, i burned my bagel for breakfast, set the fire alarm off, woke Mariana up AND ya know.. had to make plan B for breakfast.... Then got to school only to find out Scott was having a later morning than expected.... But being the awesome team we are, we totally faked it until he got there... aka the 5 minutes i was alone with them in the morning... but anyways....My favorite part of the day was reading the kids a book that I bought them called "One". This book was recommended to me by one of the other people in the Stanley program. It is an amazing book that can help share with kids how important standing up to bullies is and understanding that sometimes it just takes ONE (person) to stand up. They had a lot of positive things to say and I'm hoping that it wasn't just talk. It's not easy, and this may be the hill I die on but I won't care.... Even if I only get one kid to act differently, it's one kid.... We transitioned into our expedition which was fun... The kids are learning so much about Colonialism and understanding who came to the new world and why... They are learning so many things and really impressing me with their desire to learn more! After lunch.... we did the best thing ever... we gave them an exam that require them to read the directions.... One of those, read read read the directions then gave them lots of goofy directions and at the end it said simply follow directions #1 and #2 and sit until the time has run out. It was hilarious.... watching the ones who had figured it out try to double, triple check that they were right.... man oh man. I'm not totally sure it got through to all of them but we'll find out when homework gets turned in on friday I guess. After that we did the best thing for 5th graders.... MAKE BUTTER. During independent reading which really didn't happen at all the kids shook butter... Which they then enjoyed with some bread... They also drank the buttermilk... It was so awesome to see how excited they were and I just have to keep fighting for these moments... Math was good and after school we finalized our calendar for the rest of the expedition.... Little by little things will fall back into place.... I'm not too worried... I have an awesome support network and am so grateful for them....