Another Week Down!

Well, it's snowy and 28 degrees Fahrenheit out. We don't see a sunset up here until 11:00pm! As you can imagine I don't have a very consistent sleep schedule. That will be one good thing about coming home!

The week went by fairly fast with the kids. We had less kids misbehaving this week. I have it down to 2 kids (not listening and following directions). One student has decided that it is completely appropriate to cry at the drop of a lego. I give him a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 countdown and if he doesn't stop crying before zero he gets a check, which is the way we keep track of bad behavior. They get stars for good behavior. He's quite impressive he usually stops his crying before I get to 2! But his is that pout crying not the hysterics that I used to do when I got in deep trouble. I think mom should have given me countdowns. "You can have a 20 second cry." or "This is not worth your crying. 3 seconds to knock it off!"

I know that sounds mean. But if you work around kids you understand that half the time they don't really understand why they are crying. I'm trying to teach them that there are appropriate times to cry, if you are hurt (mentally or physically) and if someone is dying. It's not ok to cry when you have hurt someone else (physically or mentally)! Agree/Disagree if you want but I know I had that I'm a big cry baby (crying over everything and anything)...I don't want kids to grow up crying over everything.

Anyways, bush living is nice...and weird. Nice because it's warming up and weird because the sun doesn't go down until 11pm. I really need to motivate myself to do some workouts!! Keep me in your prayers for that motivation, please!

Lastly, quote of the day! This quote was taken from yesterday. It was the end of the day and one student, I'll call them student J, wanted to do his show and tell. He goes and gets his toy power ranger and come running out from behind the cubbies and around the room.

"J, you need to stand in front of the class. This is show and tell, not pretend you are your power ranger."

"Oh, ok." He comes over and stands by me and says "This is my power ranger. He has powers. He is a jungle fairy power ranger." he said this in a way that you would have to hear, but it basically soundly like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite. It was hilarious and I did all I could not to laugh.

"Thank you, J! I didn't know that there was a Jungle Fairy Power Ranger!"

His friends gave him clam claps and he went and finally got ready to go home.

That's my life as a kindergarten teacher.

Love,

Ms. Andrea
aka Edah