The Triumph: Being able to work so closely and learn more about my students on these Mondays. Today was another of the Mondays where I only have 10 students. It's either 10 or 28 and oh do I love the days with 10. The kids that come every day really need to have that one on one or small group interaction and the days where they are the only ones to come really allows that to happen! And I love it!!
The Struggle: Today, really just realizing that kids benefit from coming everyday, as well as having smaller class sizes. Something needs to be done with the way that the education system and how they fund early childhood education!
The Ludicrousness: Ok, quotes again today. I love hearing the stuff that the kids say...
We were reading a book about a dog that gets into a lot of trouble, including a day when the dog 'wets the rug.' One of my students raised his hand to ask me what that meant and other kids let him know that it meant the dog had peed on the carpet. Well, later in the book the dog does the same thing, and one of my boys says "oh, well he pissed on the carpet again!"
Later another one of my boys was sitting at the computer and called me over to him. Then he yells out to me (because he has ginormous headphones on) "Ms. Castleton, I smell gunpowder!" All I could do was look at him and say "What?!" The substitute who was sitting near by just burst into laughter! I don't know how he knows what gunpowder smells like, or why he thought he was smelling it, but it was hilarious!
Oh Ms Castleton, our dog occasionally pees on the floor too!
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