Yesterday, one of my kids coloured his hands green (I mean COMPLETELY green) right before the Christmas concert. Need I remind anyone what children wear to school on Christmas concert days?! Luckily, we managed to get his hands relatively clean (light green vs dark green) without spreading it to his clothes (though I can't say the same for his face - it looked like he was wearing green warpaint). Everyone thinks that stages are designed the way that they are so that the audience can see everything. This is not the case! They are elevated so that parents can't see what children have done to themselves after all of the hard work put into making them look nice before they arrived at school on Concert Day.
In other news, one of my students got himself tangled in the computer keyboard cord today - how do you even do that?! Especially, when you're supposed to be sitting in a chair with 3 feet of clearance around you because you can't handle being near anything. AND the computer isn't even turned on to distract you! Having said all this, I'm actually quite relived that this is all that they've come up with this week. Last week, (was it really just last week?!) I had what I refer to as the "Haircutting Incident of 2008." Not one, not two, but THREE of my boys decided to give themselves haircuts during class. Luckily, I intercepted the third one before the scissors could actually snip any hair, but I was too late for the other two. (They didn't take a lot because they were afraid of their parents finding out - as if they wouldn't notice a square of hair missing from your forehead!). Between the 3 boys, I confiscated about 8 pairs of scissors (they had borrowed backups on the contingency that I might confiscate a pair). Meddling with things in their desk seems to have slowed down this week, though that's probably largely due to the fact that I have a basket piled full of things that I have confiscated over the past 2 weeks and they are running low on stuff for me to take. Did I mention that these students are in grade three, not kindergarten? Oh well...
This is the life of a teacher. Luckily, upon graduating from university, you get not only a degree, but also supersonic hearing, eyes on the back of your head, and the reflexes of (insert superhero of your choice).
Merry Christmas Everyone!
