Dance Party Turned Bad

"Let it go, let it go. . . . . "
All . . . Day. . . Long. . .
Dance party Thursday turned into a disaster.
The music was blasting
The kids were dancing and singing
Then I hear
"She's puking!"
Awesome
Turned around to see projectile vomit. Twice
Uh, I don't think I have enough paper towels to wipe that up

Egg-Napped!

Today I read the book Egg-Napped! By Marissa Montes

After I read the title I asked the kids if they knew what it meant
20 kids just stared at me with blank faces
I then asked if they knew  what it meant to be kid napped
19 kids with blank faces
C quickly raised his hand and said "it's when you go missing!"
I said "yes, so what do you think is going to happen in the book with the egg?"
20 blank stares


The plot of the book goes a little like this:
Two Geese have an egg
The egg rolls away
A turtle finds the egg and tries to disguise it
A Squirrel tries to help the geese by rolling the egg away from the turtle
The egg rolls down a big hill
It flies off the edge of a cliff where a huge hawk snags it up in the air
The squirrel is really a flying squirrel who saves the egg from the hawk
The egg plummets to the ground
The flying squirrel turns into a parachute and saves the egg
The geese are looking at the egg and waiting for it to hatch

Just as I was getting to the end of my story
C says "I bet the egg really doesn't belong to the geese and it's really a turtle egg!"

My jaw just dropped
Ha, who knew the kid picked up on a possible foreshadow
Good thought
I smiled at C and said "hum, maybe you are right, lets read the rest to see what happens"

The end of the Book: A baby goose hatches

Then C said "that book was boring"

Miss Allison, You Look Like _______

Today I wore my hair in a low, side, pony, with left over curls from the night before.

I walked into the room and the first thing I heard was

"Miss Allison! You look like princess Elsa"
(from the movie frozen)

Despite the fact that I'm Asian, I have black hair (Elsa has white) and I look nothing like her, I will take that compliment with a smile!

Duck, Duck, GOOSE!

Today, I thought I would be the fun one and play a game with my kiddos.
It was the end of the day and we were already getting bored with all of the hundreds of toys in our room.
I suggested we played duck, duck, goose.
14 wide eyes looked up at me and S asked "What's THAT?!?"
Thinking I'm the coolest teacher ever I sat my kids down in a circle on the group time rug.
I explained to them the simple rules of duck, duck, goose.
I then told them I would go first so they can understand what to do.

"duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, GOOSE!"

As soon as I said the word goose 7 kids shot up into the air, started screaming, twirled around in a circle, and sat back down, in their same spot, and stared at me, wide eyed, again. "That was fun!" exclaimed A

"No, wait! That's not how you really play" as I frantically try to re-explain the rules.
"Ok, so who understands how to really play?"
S raised her hand so fast!

As S walked around the circle she began "duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, . . . . "

By the time she was on her third time around the circle I gently reminded her to say the word "goose. . ."
6 kids shot up into the air, started screaming, twirled around in a circle, and sat back down, in their same spot, staring at me, wide eyed.

By my 5th attempt to play duck, duck, goose, the game just turned into the kids waiting for me to yell GOOSE and we would jump up, scream, twirl in place, and then laugh at our silly selves.