March Fool

This year April Fool's day came twice. Monday March 31st and April 1st. The 31st started off innocently enough. I had the Teddy Bears to deal with and really they aren't much of a challenge. But I should have known when Dream took over my chair. I was sitting in the front of the room and she decided that she wanted to share the chair with me. So I consented and she became the teacher. I sat in her chair and then the entire class decided to take over. They enjoyed yelling random things at me, I'm sure it was all in English, but you never know. The rest of morning kindergarten went quite well. I did not have to send any children to the corner today, a real first.

But the best part of the day was yet to come. When I got to KBR at 1:30 for my three hour class I found out that one of my students had broken the boys squatter. Of course it was one of my own boys so I suppose I deserved what I got. As you can see and rather hear from the video above, there was a jackhammer going for about the first two hours of my class. Also the boys enjoyed laughing at who knows what, but after being in class for a half hour I knew that all attempts of teaching would fly out the window. You will also notice that Melody doesn't seem the least bit entertained. After we had eaten our snack she threw it back up. Apparently that is all she needed because she felt better after that. I had to scream so that my students could hear me over the sound. It wasn't the most pleasant experiecne but we somehow made it through. Actually we didn't make it through. At 3:15 I asked if we could go into another classroom or outside and the secretaries consented and let us leave at 3:30 to play in Gerald's yard. Usually when we got outside for an extended period of time we try to get the children to speak English and draw out the language, but I must admit that I really didn't try too hard. Truth be known, I did not try at all. As you can see it started out as semi-organized play with the balls and other happenings.

After they got bored of that they decided to hunt for snails, just like they always like to do. They found plenty and this time, since it had rained, there were still live snail inside of the shells.

After about half an hour I realized that I should probably come back inside and finish up the last half hour attempting to do something productive. So I sat them all down and told them they could come up and tell me about they wanted to draw and with what color they wanted. It entertained them for a while and then I had a parent look in the window and realized I should probably make it look like I was doing something productive. So I had them make the sounds of the letters we are working on this week so I could maintain some semblence of order in the classroom.

I finally got through the day but then the next day was the real April Fool's and the ladies decided to switch my bed with Joseph's. They also decided to dye his milk purple. They thought it was super funny but Joseph wants to kill them.