My worst classes are now my best. My best class is now my worst. I think it's due to testing last week and having some students not be able to come to my class for four days.
Today I had to break a promise to my students. We were supposed to throw darts at paint filled balloons in my first two classes since they'd been asked to help tomorrow with the Special Olympics. After work, I realized my car key had disappeared. Most likely fell out of my pocket somewhere, never to be seen again. So I had to wait for AAA to come, get towed to a dealership, arrive after they closed, and luckily found a friend whose husband was out of town to borrow his car until I could get mine back (wow that was a bad run-on sentence). So after getting home at almost 10pm finally, I didn't get the supplies I needed. My students, my awesome resourceful students, decided to construct their own darts from broken pencils, push pins, and hot glue. Bonus points for creativity! So we got to experiment with a few balloons to see if it worked better with lots of paint or less paint inside. The verdict? Less is better. It makes an awesome splatter while the others make big streaks down the paper. (Cool if that's what you're going for though).
I took some students third period outside to take a look at the morning's experiment. It was a few minutes before lunch when we went back inside and I had to pull the chain to close the door through the woodshop. I asked the students to wait in the attached classroom for me (so they wouldn't sneak out early to lunch, which they usually try to do on a regular basis). I walked into the room to find ALL of my students sitting down waiting for me. I almost fell over. Did they just actually follow directions?!
Another highlight of the day? Also in that same class. I was talking to my students about this summer, and how I was excited for the break but going to miss them. Then one of my most outspoken students got up and said, "You should come down to my hood. And I'll tell everyone, 'Hey, leave her alone, she's cool!'" Completely serious. He went on about it for almost five minutes. I could barely keep myself from falling on the floor laughing.
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