This week was Teacher Appreciation Week. Each day, teachers received fun gifts from our PTA, student council and some of our students. I got a few gift cards and some school supplies. We had lunch catered on Thursday and Friday. It was a great week!
I had a meeting scheduled with a parent on Tuesday to discuss her child’s academics and attendance. This parent has had CPS called on her and was really upset about it. She had every excuse for why her child has missed 25 days of school since October. She called 30 minutes before the meeting and cancelled saying her son was sick and wouldn’t be at school again (he also missed the day before). The office told her to reach out to me to reschedule. I haven’t heard from her. On Wednesday, the child showed up to school with NO shoes on his feet. The nurse found me on the playground in the morning and told me that she called his mom and she told the nurse that his aunt took him to school and didn’t know he didn’t put his shoes on. The child doesn’t talk and never said anything so I guess nobody noticed. But according to his mom, he talks nonstop at home and has nothing wrong with him. This is also the same parent who told the office that he didn’t start speaking until he came to kindergarten! She’s nuts!
My students were so wild this week. They have been very naughty. We go out to recess with another kindergarten class every afternoon. I leave our classroom door open so my students can use the bathroom. That is the only reason they are allowed to go in the classroom during recess. This has been the rule since day one. On Wednesday, we lined up to go in from recess and I noticed I only had 3 girls in my line. I looked inside the classroom and the other girls were all by their backpacks. One of the girls brought in candy and they were all eating it and putting it in their backpacks. Shortly after this incident, a student pooped his pants. It was the LONGEST day of the week. I sent a message home to parents reminding them that good behavior is still expected at school and asked them to talk to their child over the weekend.
We had to split up a kindergarten class on Friday due to a sub shortage so I had a few extra students. One of the students was deaf and had an interpreter with her. It was very humbling for my students to see. A couple of them learned a few signs from watching the interpreter. We finished up our Mother’s Day projects. I usually order foam picture frames from Oriental Trading and the students put them together and decorate them. This year, I ordered the same frames as last year and didn’t open them until Tuesday and realized they weren’t the same frames! These frames needed to be glued together and the spot for a picture was tiny. Sooo, those got sent back and we did a writing project instead! We also received yearbooks on Friday which added to the excitement. The students had so much fun signing each other’s yearbooks and looking at all the pages and finding themselves on our class page!
We ended the week with a game of Left, Right, Center at my house. Nine teachers from my school came over. My mom came and hung out for a little bit too. We ordered pizza, ate snacks, played the game, talked and laughed a lot about the crazy stuff that has happened this year. We were finished playing around 11:00, but hung out talking until 1:30 AM! I say this every time…I can not imagine working anywhere else (or with anyone else)!
Our butterflies have emerged and are ready to be released. We will release them next week. The grass that we planted last Friday has grown quite a bit and will be ready to cut next week. We also have our kindergarten program next Thursday and Field Day on Friday. Click the link below to see my plans for next week.