president george

March 6: Dora and Marvin set George on the day teacher’s swivel chair behind the U-shaped table. They set treats on the table in front of him and called him President George. Later, they wheeled him around the classroom to all of his very important meetings.

March 7: I taught my kids lie detection today and then we played 2 truths and 1 lie. Almost all of them choose one of their sentences to be that they loved me. Almost all of them cited it as one of their truths.

March 8: A third grader tattled on me to the principal. He actually went into the front office to complain about the ban on dodge ball. Now they know that Mr. Mendoza didn’t actually impose an embargo on the game. God help us all.

March 9: Gwendolyn declared today the day of poop. We couldn’t get away from it. Every guess in the whisper challenge was about poop. The chapter we read today was titled Mr. Poop. At 5:30 exactly, the girls still there demanded my laptop so that they could watch the “Poop in the Pool” Kid Snippets video.

March 10: Robert’s family is desperate to find a new scapegoat now that JP has moved. They have set their sights on David, the sweetest kid in the entire grade. The mother even blames the school for her being let go from her job a few months back.

March 11: I FaceTimed my family because it is Grannie’s 82nd birthday today and they all took her to Outback Steakhouse for dinner. Waunt claimed that the last time I FaceTimed them, it effected Goupie in a way that made her mysteriously limp for hours after seeing me.

March 12: Addie found a crab on the beach. She jabbed at it with her paws and when she was satisfied that it was really, truly dead, she peed on it. George was much more interested in the piles of horse poop from the Mar Vista Stable rides.




much love,
hedgie