The kids have started their presentations on the decades that they researched. We've had some real comedy gems.
Today a girl was really taking charge of the class during her presentation. She was telling people to listen and giving directions. I asked her if she wanted to be a teacher. She clasped her hands together and said "I like power".
Another student started singing, who knows why, and a girl said to him "Nobody wants the windows broken".
It was the birthday of a girl in class. One of the boys walked over to her, patted her on the back and handed her a jolly rancher that he mysteriously had in his pocket. Later, she was pointing for him to go somewhere and when he walked by her, he creepily pretended to kiss her hand. The best part was that she didn't even notice.
This same kid said something smart and I said he was a genius. His name starts with a D and another kid yelled out, "He's a Denius!"
He also correctly answered a question during a group Jeopardy, but when I pointed out it was because someone else gave him the answer, he got down on his knees, put his hands in the air and yelled "rain on me!"
A kid was playing Elvis in their group music video. Apparently he didn't actually watch any of Elvis' dance moves, because I don't recall ever seeing Elvis do booty popping...
In this same music video, one girl was getting super irritated with the girl she was swing dancing with. She had a hard time remembering that because I was recording, it was picking up every time she yelled at the other girl to "keep dancing!" I did manage to move the camera the time she fell down in the middle of their dance. It was amazing.
One of the Jeopardy questions a group asked was about JFK's vice president. The best answer: "Sarah Palin". Thankfully my students have a pretty fabulous sense of humor.
All of a sudden, some of the boys in my class are really into the lotion on my desk. I was commenting on how the girls have never touched it, but the boys are really into smelling fresh. One boy was rubbing it on his elbows because they were dry and we were laughing about how girls aren't into men with ashy elbows. Another boy was putting lotion on his arms and said "the secret to a good relationship".
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Little Gems
"Miss G, can I have a picture of you? I want to show Santa what I want for Christmas"
I was waiting for the class to be quiet when one kid screamed at another "SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" I said that was rather aggressive and unnecessary and another kid piped up with "GENTLY shut your mouth".
Zip up hoodie came in today with a mask he made out of duct tape and a string. It was kind of fabulous. He told me I could have my own pair for the low cost of "free ninety free".
He also told me "The best kind of people aren't hoarders but like, people with a lot of junk in their yard".
We had some rough times at our track meet today...
One girl was really worried about doing hurdles for the first time. She heard the starting gun, but didn't hear it go off again, indicating a false start. She kept running, as in, she ran over every hurdle to the finish line before I could get to her to stop... It was really painful to watch but I was proud of her for overcoming it and completing the rest of her events later.
During one of the relays, I was at the 1st hand off zone. Two of our kids were there, waiting for their teammate. We saw the kids coming around the corner and I counted 3 of our jerseys...I thought I had missed a kid or something but then realized one of the girls looked suuuuper confused as she held out a baton for...nobody. She awkwardly held it and kept running. Later, I saw the missing member of their relay looking real confused and wandering around. Apparently she didn't get the memo that their race had started? Claaaassic middle school sporting event fiasco.
I was waiting for the class to be quiet when one kid screamed at another "SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" I said that was rather aggressive and unnecessary and another kid piped up with "GENTLY shut your mouth".
Zip up hoodie came in today with a mask he made out of duct tape and a string. It was kind of fabulous. He told me I could have my own pair for the low cost of "free ninety free".
He also told me "The best kind of people aren't hoarders but like, people with a lot of junk in their yard".
We had some rough times at our track meet today...
One girl was really worried about doing hurdles for the first time. She heard the starting gun, but didn't hear it go off again, indicating a false start. She kept running, as in, she ran over every hurdle to the finish line before I could get to her to stop... It was really painful to watch but I was proud of her for overcoming it and completing the rest of her events later.
During one of the relays, I was at the 1st hand off zone. Two of our kids were there, waiting for their teammate. We saw the kids coming around the corner and I counted 3 of our jerseys...I thought I had missed a kid or something but then realized one of the girls looked suuuuper confused as she held out a baton for...nobody. She awkwardly held it and kept running. Later, I saw the missing member of their relay looking real confused and wandering around. Apparently she didn't get the memo that their race had started? Claaaassic middle school sporting event fiasco.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
M.I.A.
I'm back!
Between grad school, teaching, coaching and family, it's a little hard to keep track of the weird junk the kids do sometimes! Here's a little update on our happenings in 8th grade...
The kids are working on a project in which they have to research one decade in their groups.
Tales from the Research:
-One of the kids was looking up fashion from the 90s. I could hear him telling his group that he couldn't understand why the same lady kept popping up in all the pictures of hairstyles. When I looked at the picture I cleared that mystery up. Don't we all remember when everyone wanted the Jennifer Aniston?
-It is a general consensus that fashion from the 90s was pretty terrible.
-While kids from the 90s group have been looking up music from the decade, I've been having high school dance flashbacks. Also, they have all taken to singing "I Want it That Way". Nothing like a little BSB to get you through the day. Except if you hear it 10 times per day...that gets rough.
-I had to explain the difference between a VCR and a VHS.
-Some kids were practicing their dancing for their music video. 2 boys were holding hands and spinning in a circle (this may or may not have been my idea...). One of the boys had the happiest look on his face, just pure joy, when the other one let go of his hands and he flew across the room. Watching his face go from complete excitement to utter panic was maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen. I started laughing so hard I couldn't move and I was crying. I did make sure he was ok, I'm not a total monster.
-Some of the kids were looking up slang and didn't know what "all that and a bag of chips" meant. Is that not cool anymore? Kidding!
Other Bits of Joy -
-I teach one period of 6th grade study skills. There's a charming young man in this class who often has trouble saying things that are related to what the rest of us are discussing. The other day, the kids were presenting on the career they would like to have and some information they researched about it. One girl wanted to be a singer and then sang us part of a song she wrote. She also told us she wanted to be in a band. This young man raised his hand and said "I don't think you need to be in a band, I think you have a good voice and could do it by yourself". We were all shocked and the entire class started clapping for him. It was pretty sweet. Today the same kid asked me if I was married and I said no. He asked if I was going to get married and I said I didn't know that. He said "there might be someone out there waiting for you". You just never know when kids are going to say something super precious.
-Speaking of precious, you should see kids attempting to do high jump at track. They don't give up and I'm proud of them, but MAN it's painful to watch them just straight dive in and take a hard pole to the armpit. Yesterday a girl at practice took the pole to the side after she dive bombed it and then stood up, and walked off yelling "I JUST NEED A MINUTE!" She recovered :)
-Also, hurdles are somewhat challenging for the uncoordinated middle school child. Our first meet included a variety of hurdles to the shins and kids eating it on the track.
-One kid on our team was running a sprint, slowed down when he passed the crowd so that he could wave to his adoring fans and then kept running. It was incredible. Although all of us that are coaching were screaming "KEEP RUNNING!!!"
-The amount of children that go gumby arms when they run is astonishing. You'd think it would feel weird to let your arms fly behind you like noodles, but apparently not.
-When I was proctoring the MSP. I looked up to check on kids to find an 8th grader going straight for the old nostrils. Nothing like a good nose-pick to boost your test score.
-A few days ago, my mouse stopped working randomly and I had to re-start my computer to get it going again. Today, it stopped working again and so I re-started it but the mouse still wasn't moving on the screen. When I turned the mouse over, you can imagine the joy (false) I felt when I saw that the reason it wasn't working was because some little darling had taped this picture
on the bottom. Later in the day, I went to use the presentation computer and found that the mouse wasn't working on that one either. Luckily, I was onto them and found the same lovely image taped to the back. I was rather irritated and vowed to find the culprit. I was on my way to a meeting during 6th period when I passed a group of kids, some of which are in my class. One of them was giggling uncontrollably when he saw me. I knew I had found the prankster. He asked me how my computer was doing. Caught ya.
-My student with the love for hoodies came in the other day wearing a button up shirt with a tiny tree in the pocket. He said he got it at a wedding. I do have to admire his pioneering attitude when it comes to fashion.
-When we were learning about Pearl Harbor, one of the boys was telling us about how he loves the movie. He then went on a weird rant about how he could NOT believe that the best friend would date his dead best friend's girlfriend and how he would NEVER DO THAT. His best friend is in the same class, so I said "well, at least you know he won't date your girlfriend if you die". His friend responded with "oh, I would." True friendship.
Between grad school, teaching, coaching and family, it's a little hard to keep track of the weird junk the kids do sometimes! Here's a little update on our happenings in 8th grade...
The kids are working on a project in which they have to research one decade in their groups.
Tales from the Research:
-One of the kids was looking up fashion from the 90s. I could hear him telling his group that he couldn't understand why the same lady kept popping up in all the pictures of hairstyles. When I looked at the picture I cleared that mystery up. Don't we all remember when everyone wanted the Jennifer Aniston?
-It is a general consensus that fashion from the 90s was pretty terrible.
-While kids from the 90s group have been looking up music from the decade, I've been having high school dance flashbacks. Also, they have all taken to singing "I Want it That Way". Nothing like a little BSB to get you through the day. Except if you hear it 10 times per day...that gets rough.
-I had to explain the difference between a VCR and a VHS.
-Some kids were practicing their dancing for their music video. 2 boys were holding hands and spinning in a circle (this may or may not have been my idea...). One of the boys had the happiest look on his face, just pure joy, when the other one let go of his hands and he flew across the room. Watching his face go from complete excitement to utter panic was maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen. I started laughing so hard I couldn't move and I was crying. I did make sure he was ok, I'm not a total monster.
-Some of the kids were looking up slang and didn't know what "all that and a bag of chips" meant. Is that not cool anymore? Kidding!
Other Bits of Joy -
-I teach one period of 6th grade study skills. There's a charming young man in this class who often has trouble saying things that are related to what the rest of us are discussing. The other day, the kids were presenting on the career they would like to have and some information they researched about it. One girl wanted to be a singer and then sang us part of a song she wrote. She also told us she wanted to be in a band. This young man raised his hand and said "I don't think you need to be in a band, I think you have a good voice and could do it by yourself". We were all shocked and the entire class started clapping for him. It was pretty sweet. Today the same kid asked me if I was married and I said no. He asked if I was going to get married and I said I didn't know that. He said "there might be someone out there waiting for you". You just never know when kids are going to say something super precious.
-Speaking of precious, you should see kids attempting to do high jump at track. They don't give up and I'm proud of them, but MAN it's painful to watch them just straight dive in and take a hard pole to the armpit. Yesterday a girl at practice took the pole to the side after she dive bombed it and then stood up, and walked off yelling "I JUST NEED A MINUTE!" She recovered :)
-Also, hurdles are somewhat challenging for the uncoordinated middle school child. Our first meet included a variety of hurdles to the shins and kids eating it on the track.
-One kid on our team was running a sprint, slowed down when he passed the crowd so that he could wave to his adoring fans and then kept running. It was incredible. Although all of us that are coaching were screaming "KEEP RUNNING!!!"
-The amount of children that go gumby arms when they run is astonishing. You'd think it would feel weird to let your arms fly behind you like noodles, but apparently not.
-When I was proctoring the MSP. I looked up to check on kids to find an 8th grader going straight for the old nostrils. Nothing like a good nose-pick to boost your test score.
-I looked at the digital clock on the wall yesterday, one of the kids had taped a sign over the numbers that said "ain't nobody got time for that".
-A kid at track sat on a bee and subsequently got stung in the booty. I have never seen someone react so dramatically to a bee sting. He told me it was a "bullfrog bee" and that he thought he was having an allergic reaction. I told him he looked fine and that probably his throat or something would swell up. He told me "well, my saliva feels dry". Don't worry, he was fine.
-I just noticed the other day that someone had taped a sign on the outside of my window that says "this class is photoshopped".
-A few days ago, my mouse stopped working randomly and I had to re-start my computer to get it going again. Today, it stopped working again and so I re-started it but the mouse still wasn't moving on the screen. When I turned the mouse over, you can imagine the joy (false) I felt when I saw that the reason it wasn't working was because some little darling had taped this picture
on the bottom. Later in the day, I went to use the presentation computer and found that the mouse wasn't working on that one either. Luckily, I was onto them and found the same lovely image taped to the back. I was rather irritated and vowed to find the culprit. I was on my way to a meeting during 6th period when I passed a group of kids, some of which are in my class. One of them was giggling uncontrollably when he saw me. I knew I had found the prankster. He asked me how my computer was doing. Caught ya. -My student with the love for hoodies came in the other day wearing a button up shirt with a tiny tree in the pocket. He said he got it at a wedding. I do have to admire his pioneering attitude when it comes to fashion.
-When we were learning about Pearl Harbor, one of the boys was telling us about how he loves the movie. He then went on a weird rant about how he could NOT believe that the best friend would date his dead best friend's girlfriend and how he would NEVER DO THAT. His best friend is in the same class, so I said "well, at least you know he won't date your girlfriend if you die". His friend responded with "oh, I would." True friendship.
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