cold season

a recent conversation with C and I. These conversations are always my favorite.

"Miss Ward! Where in the world 'H'? He sits at my table and has been missing for days!"C shouted out during math

"I talked to his mom, and he is sick. He should be back to school soon."

"Oh dang! What is he diseased with?"

"um... I think he just has a bad cold, but how about you worry about you (that happens to be one of my famous daily phrases), and finish your math!"

after literally, several minutes later

"Okay. I mean, it is the cold season, so he better rest himself!"

"Yes yes, now back to division..."

speechless

Each morning the students come in and start on their 'weekly work' which are assignments they can accomplish independently.

This is organized partly to give me time to get attendance down, and partly due to the fact that I don't communicate well in the mornings... even with the tiny humans... thus leaving me 30 minutes to continue waking up.

On this particular morning, the students were a little overly chatty, and I asked them to quietly return to their desks and resume working. One individual who was overly chatty and out of his seat, I told him he had 4 seconds to get back to work, his response....

"But Miss Ward, I'm just singing a song that is peaceful!"

another kids response:

"We don't want your peaceful songs dude"

My response?

speechless

sounds like a personal problem

Right in the middle of a dead quiet silent reading session:

Miss Ward! Why am I sweating? .... in my ARMPITS!

All I could do was shake my head and promote silent reading!