It's a beautiful morning...

Have you ever had moments that you'd like to bottle up - to be able to take them out and experience them again at a later time? I had one yesterday morning when the first student I encountered, a grinning second grade boy, greeted me like this: "Mornin' Mrs. Y. It's gonna be a BEAUTIFUL day!". Now I don't know if he was talking about the weather (it was chilly and overcast) or just his prediction of how his day was going to go, but in either case my own day got off to a BEAUTIFUL start. Love those kids!

Your royal highness?

A second grade girl asked her friend to go do something for her, and this was the response:

"I know you were treated like a princess at your birthday party, but guess what? You're not really a princess".

Touché.

Good morning!

I love that kids often come up to report in to me on Monday mornings. They usually start with "look!" Or "guess what?!" and there are definitely some common themes:

*Lost teeth
*Sleep overs or play dates - some successful, some not
*Scraped knees and other new assorted cuts and bruises
*New shoes - often accompanied by a demonstration of how     fast they can now run
*Hair cuts 
*Annoying siblings
*Books being read (especially love this one) :)

Great way to start the week.

The infamous F word

A first grader came to tell me that a kindergartner had used the "F word". As I tried desperately to think of what it could be (a kindergartner couldn't have said THAT!) I must have just looked confused because the patient first grader explained: "Mrs. Y - it rhymes with duck". 


And I was so hoping it was "fudge" or "fight" or ....

No ifs ands or buts

I was helping two first grade boys with a writing assignment today. We would have been finished a lot sooner if one of them didn't have to write the word "but" - massive amounts of giggles ensued. 

To his credit, he did ask if he could spell it with two ts. I said no.

Best not to read between the lines

My hair has gotten long enough that I wore it to school in a pony tail for the first time. A group of third grade girls approached me at recess and one of them said "you don't look like you!" while a second girl went in for the kill - "you look really pretty".

 I could only laugh, and totally appreciate the sweet intention.

Really?

Try to follow this and you get a tiny sense of my life at school

Told to me in tears:
"My friend got mad at me. I was pretending something was real and she said that's not real so I told her it was to real, even though it wasn't - but I was pretending it was, so I had to say that."

Deep breath in and.....

After being gone for 3 days, a first grade friend greeted me this morning and literally said in one breath: 

Hi Mrs. Y - I'm back they buried my grandma in a coffin because she stopped breathing and my mom said I can wear sandals now because it's warmer is it going to rain today and I found a rock shaped like a heart I didn't buy it I found it and I'm havining a sleep over this weekend and am going to wear the nightgown I got for Christmas and I can't wait for summer beacause S. and I are going to have a play date every week when does the bell ring?

I don't know about her, but at 8:45 I felt like I had put in 1/2 a day already.