Well, now that I've started my blog about classroom laughs, the only laughs I am encountering are those that violate my rules. Ahhh irony! But anyway, I can still find something funny in this week that is appropriate to write about. If I couldn't, I wouldn't be a good middle school teacher. Well anyway, like most schools, this was our last week before Christmas break, and I will say that the kids were pretty good all week. We also had AODA (alcohol and other drug awareness) week this week, so every day was another "dress up" day. On Wednesday it was hat day, and I wore my Santa hat that has the phrase "I believe in Santa Clause" embroidered on it. I went to the store after school, and I was feeling pretty good about myself because people were looking at me and smiling....and then I walked past a mirror. I was still wearing the hat!!! I guess it was really comfortable because I never took it off. What a dork! At least that gave me something to laugh about. By the way, after that I still kept the hat on because the hair was worse!
Today we went caroling as part of a fund raiser for our nursing home field trip program. The day was great and exhausting. We earned every penny of what we raised. Before this the kids asked people for pledges, and if people wanted to request that we sing to someone, we went to that place. Our grade raised over 600 dollars. We have about 100 kids in the grade. It was fun, but I think we scared some people. We were walking by a house where a lady was outside with her dog, and I asked her if she would like us to sing her a song, and she said, "No thank you, I already heard you when you sang down the street." Oh...It was that bad, was it? However, she was the only one who said anything remotely uncomplimentary. Most people smiled and laughed and enjoyed the caroling. I made sure to tell the kids before we went that our purpose was to bring joy to others, not to amuse ourselves by how bad we can sing or to see who can shout the loudest. I think most of them "got it." We got pretty good at "Jingle Bells" by the end of the day. And then tonight around 6 a group of carolers came to my house and sang "Jingle Bells"! I'm beginning to not like that song....
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Coming in to work today, I slipped on the ice. As I was falling to the cement, all I could think of was don't let my laptop crash- literally! Well, I fell on top of it.(No damage- I could do a commercial for laptop cases) Then I looked up and saw the school camera and thought, Dave is going to have one good laugh- hopefully it was turned off during the holiday break!
So much for winter wellness~
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