October 16: Acie was in a rebellious mood and was doing every little act of defiance that he could think of. Unfortunately, one of them was breaking my “don’t run down the stairs” policy. He ended up tripping on the fourth step and rammed head-first into a wall. He sat on the floor crying and David helped prop him up.
I sat next to him and asked him what the president’s name was.
He closed his eyes and groaned. “Don’t make me say it.”
October 17: Susan Orlean paused in the middle of promoting her new book, The Library Book, to give the audience advice on how to get away with committing a felony. “If you want to commit a crime, here’s a tip, go for arson.”
October 18: When teachers request support in their classrooms, they refer to the children that need assistance by their initials. It has made me biased against certain letters of the alphabet. These names tend to contain E’s, D’s, and J’s more than any other letter. This morning, we had two calls just three seconds apart.
“Female J.J. is throwing rulers in Rm 203.”
“Male J.J. just eloped from the classroom.”
October 19: Two men from the Safe Streets program came to teach my class about the street systems that have been designed to keep them safe. They asked my class for examples that they already knew about. They were expecting answers like slower speed limits around the school or crosswalks. Instead, my kids told them about the fences to keep shooters out and the locking front gate so that people can’t come in to try to kidnap them.
The two men stared at them in silence for a few seconds before saying, “Oh. You guys got dark fast.”
October 20: Heidi spent the week in Yosemite National Park with no cell phone service. Despite this, she somehow managed to prepare a present for us in the park. It was a Travel Stamp notebook where you add special stamps for every national park you visit. She somehow already printed a stuck in one of our wedding photos for the Joshua Tree National Park square.
October 21: She was on all fours on the ground, screaming with all the force of a power washer.
October 22: Serenity decides to quit soccer forever roughly every ten minutes. She stomps off the course and does her best to force around what she can find. She kicks at the trunk of trees, throws leaves into the court, and sulks on the bench while shoving everyone’s water bottles and sweaters to the ground.
October 23: The front office flooded with students suddenly requesting to replace school ID cards that they had lost months before. Their parents were terrified and demanded that they have something with name nam and photo on them at all times.
much love,
hedgie
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