The day before spring break

So today was the last day of school for the students before spring break begins (teacher have a professional development day tomorrow), and let's just say I think the teachers are more ready for spring break than the kids because the kids drove the teachers CRAZY today! Here are some stories:

So a student (not in the classroom I work in) was caught showing condoms to other students in the classroom, and she said that her and her friends wanted to blow them up in the bathroom. All I have to say is wow....

My little buddy WOULD NOT listen to me today...it took us a long time to get through the work that we needed to. So by the end of the day when my little buddy was reading with his 4th grade reading buddy he runs up and says "My reading buddy isn't reading to me!" So I go ask his reading buddy why he isn't reading and he says my little buddy "won't give me the book!" So my little buddy goes to get a different book and starts goofing around with some other kids in the classroom. So I FINALLY get him to go back to his reading buddy and as he's walking back, I say (in a COMPLETELY joking and sarcastic manner), "You know you're driving me crazy, right?" To which he replies, "YUP!!" What a stinker...

As the class was walking out to go home, I told them to have a good spring break. I got several different responses "Miss LeTourneau, have a WONDERFUL spring break...have an AMAZING spring break...have an EXCELLENT spring break!" I love the kids I work with :)

Now my kiddos are on spring break, so there won't be any updates until we go back!

Oh boy....

So there is this little boy in the classroom I work in. He is quite the interesting kiddo to say the least. Here are some highlights from the day with him:

• At recess he ran up to me and told me "The fire's on!" For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what he was trying to tell me, but it was important!
• Any time I try to help him out, he likes to pull his paper away from me and try and hide it an say "NO! ME DO!" Welp, ok...
• This boy and my little buddy that I work with go from being best buds to enemies about 10 times per day. They make quite the duo!
• He also likes to ignore me any chance he gets because "I'm not the teacher."
• He also likes to take off his socks...and we find them EVERYWHERE! On the floor, shoved under the bookshelf, and behind the recess ball bin....and there is ALWAYS an odd number of them!
• Throughout the day today, 2 holes in his pants appeared and grew...one on his knee and the other on his butt...he didn't care.
• He also spent his time in music class crawling around like a cat, wiggling his butt and "scratching"

Needless to say, this kid gives me interesting stories to tell!

starting this again

So I decided to start up my blog with stories from the school I am a parapro at...my job title is a special education paraprofessional and my job is to follow around a kindergartner and make sure he is behaving. So I spend most of my day in a kindergarten classroom, which provides me with several interesting stories to say the least.

Here's my story from today:
I was monitoring the bathrooms in the hallway while the kindergartners went to the bathroom. I heard a lot of commotion from the boys bathroom. I had a 6th grade boy bring out 4 of the kindergartners from the classroom I work in. Apparently these boys were trying to get each other to "kiss the toilet" (and these 4 are pretty much some of the most well-behaved students in the class!). Then I had that same 6th grader drag out another one of my kindergartners from the bathroom, apparently he was crawling underneath bathroom stalls! Needless to say, boys in bathrooms are never a good combination!

That's my story from today, and each day I definitely have a new and funny story to tell. I love my job :)