Symmetrical Designs

Well today it is sunny and 37 degrees Fahrenheit out! I have a little cold that is just hanging out having a party in my throat like in those Mucinex commercials with the phlegm families. So, I'm taking Mucinex to get rid of it and I'm hoping I'm like the people who cough it up and make the phlegm homeless in the blink of an eye. We'll see...

So far the kids are pretty mindful that I'm loosing my voice and that I don't want to have to tell them something eight times. And we only had seven kids this morning, so, that helps! :) Two more came in since the morning.

We worked on symmetrical designs today, hence the title of this little rant. I took pictures of their work. We made butterflies. You know, the typical fold a piece of paper, cut a butterfly, open it, paint a design on one side, fold it together, smoosh it, open it, and WALLAH! You have a magnificently, beautiful SYMMETRICAL butterfly! They don't know it yet, but I'm going to hang them as decorations...I know, I know! I'm brilliant! haha. Yeah, so we had a lot of fun bonding over our butterflies this morning. I'm only going to post those who got theirs done. Two students came in late and so I only have a total of nine students' butterflies.

Only 18 more sleeps till the last day for students. 19 till the last day for teachers! WOOT! I'm going to try not to take a sick day over this--what should I call it?--"cold".

I don't have any funny quotes yet...OH...wait! YES I DO! Student J (who else?) was watching, like the other good students, me make my butterfly as a model for them to go by (good teachers always model the assignment!), and I was using the sqeeze 'n' brush elmers paints that they would be using. It made a "squirt noise" and J tells me "Ms. Andrea, do they fart? I just heard it fart." He says this like "Is it sunny out today? I saw the sun." I say "No, they squirt, and when they squirt they make that noise." J says "No, Ms. Andrea that is not a squirt noise, that is a fart noise." I try to say this loud with my broken voice over the little giggles that make me want to giggle (but I have to be the teacher) "No J. When these make that noise we call it a squirt. When you make that noise...well, you know what that is called." Sure enough that's all I needed to explain and he was like "Oh! OK!" and the giggles lasted only a few more moments.

The joys of being a Kindergarten teacher!

Love,

Edah