It was HORRIBLE!!!!

The Triumph:  We successfully took a walking field trip to the creek today.  Our school has been raising salmon in a tank near the office and students have been watching them grow from eggs to little teeny fish.  And we had the opportunity to release them in the creek that is about a 15 minute (a 15 minute walk for Kinders) walk from our school.  Kids knelt over the side of a bridge and dropped the small salmon in.  I thought for sure one of our kids would go in, but they all stayed dry!

The Struggle:  There have been a lot of small disagreements and arguments and feelings being hurt in the classroom lately.  There were about 5 times today where one girl in particular was coming up to me, saying that some girls wouldn't include her.  We need to have some conversations about how to be a friend and that we all need to be nice to each other, but with there only being one day until Spring break, it won't be as useful, especially since not all kids come everyday!

The Ludicrousness:  Ok, I have to share two Kinder comments for this one today.  They both made me laugh and both occurred as we were returning from releasing the salmon.  As we are walking down the hallway towards our classroom, the school secretary came out to meet us and asked "How was it?"  And one of my students yells out "IT WAS HORRIBLE!"  He did not like the walk there and back and I think he may have even said something like, "We had to walk a really long way to get there and back!"  I laughed out loud.
Then, as we are still in the hallway, on our way to the classroom, one of my girls noticed the tank where the salmon had been growing and she says "Hey are the salmon all dead?  Where are they?"  My only response was "Do you remember the creek we were just at?  Those fish we just put in the creek?  That was them!"  Still has me laughing now!