Kindergarten Days

Oh I just love working at an elementary school. Those kids are just too funny.

Last week one of my kindergartners said, "Mrs. Deanna I'm irritated. Everybody is irritating me". Um the whole class was silent doing their seat work, how could they be irritating him? I asked him what they were doing to irritate him. He replied by saying, "I don't know, they just are". Oh Marcus.

In our class we have the teacher, me, and then another aide that works with a special needs girl in our class. The other aide had a sub on Wednesday and she noticed that I had a ring on my finger and asked if I was engaged. I told her I'm married and the kids heard me say that. The kids then started whispering to each other, "Mrs. Deanna is married!"
I walk over and Justus asks me, "Mrs. Deanna are you married"?
"Yes".
"Who are you married to?"
"My husband".
"What's his name"?
"Drew."
"Do you have kids"?
 "No".
"Are you growing a baby"?
"No I'm not".
Oh Justus. Am I growing a baby? That made me laugh. There are a lot of aides and staff that are having babies so I'm sure she must have guessed that all the aides are growing a baby lol.

I love being in Mrs. Buder's class. She is such a creative teacher. I love having her as an example. This week was bear week. The kids learned about polar, grizzly, black, koala, and panda bears. The kids even were able to bring in a stuffed bear or animal to class for the week. Mrs. Buder built a "bear lair" with boxes where the kids could go in and play. Today was the end of our bear week so last night they were to leave the bears at school for a bear sleepover. Mrs. Buder took pictures of the bears doing things in the classroom like eating snack, in the chinchilla cage, and on the computer. The kids loved seeing those pictures and had to write what their bear was doing. The kids were also able to see and feel how a polar bear survives in ice water. Mrs. Buder made something with shortening I think in a plastic bag and put another plastic bag in there so the kids hands would not get dirty and put the bag with their hand in it in ice water. The kids thought that was pretty neat. We ended the bear week with a bear tea party. We made bear biscuits by taking an uncooked biscuit and pulling apart 3 small pieces to make the ears and nose and added raisins for the eyes. We cooked them and they turned out pretty good. We also had teddy grahams and some iced tea. We put out some table cloths and blankets on the floor so the kids could sit on them for their tea party and put the iced tea in tea pots and a bottle of honey for their tea or biscuits. Oh it was super cute. Some parents even came in for the tea party.

Love having this opportunity to get ideas for when I become a teacher.