oh the things Kindergartners say....

This morning, my little buddy kept telling me that I'm so nice to him, or I'm a good friend to him, or that I'm a very nice lady. The things he says to me make me laugh! I also had another little girl run up to me, hug me and say "You are like a mother to me!" and I'm pretty sure I do nothing "mother-like" for her...haha :)

Oh and here is a story from last Wednesday: I was working with my little buddy on reading. We were reading through a list of words. We got to the word "shave" and he was able to sound it out. Once he did that, I asked him if he could use the word "shave" in a sentence. He replies with "I shave my mom!" I couldn't help but laugh!

KA-CHOW!

So in his mind, a kindergarten boy was a superhero today. And not just any hero, but I'm pretty sure he was Lightning McQueen. Today he asked the teacher if he could go to the bathroom. She let him go, and he walks to the bathroom door, then turns around and comes to me cupping his hands and said, "Could you hold my super powers?" Holding back laughter I said, "You can set them on the table." he replies, "Ok!" and 'sets the powers down' and heads to the bathroom. My little buddy actually believed that he left something on the table and he kept looking around the table for his "super powers." When he was done in the bathroom, he busts out the door and yelled "KA-CHOW!!" (Lightning McQueen's 'catchphrase'). The teacher and I just laugh. He spent the rest of the day saying "KA-CHOW!" at random moments. You seriously cannot help but laugh!

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 :)

miss letourneau is a great teacher :)

Sorry that I haven't been able to keep this blog more updated...student teaching is keeping me very busy! This past week has been absolutely crazy...so I will share my favorite moment from this past week.

I was gone from school on Monday for a conference. On Tuesday when I returned, I was turning to a new page of chart paper, and I saw that my students had written something yesterday. This is what I saw:I was so surprised! I looked to my students and they were smiling, laughing and practically yelling "I came up with the idea for that sentence!" My students came up with the ideas for each sentence and my teacher wrote them down. This definitely made my day :)

I <3 my 1st graders!

presents & laughs

Today was filled with lots of presents and laughs :)

Katelyn came in this morning and handed me a letter, with a Dora stamp inside. Not too long after, Elise came in with a plastic bag and handed it to me and said, "Here, a present for you!" I was taken back, but I opened the bag and inside was a small wooden box (like a a jewelry box) and she had colored flowers all over it and attached a note with a picture that said "I love you!" It was one of those things that made me smile!

At my school, when students receive a green ticket for showing good behavior, they place their green ticket in a bin for prize drawings. When they place their green ticket in the bin, they also get a green stamp. One student, Addy, received a green ticket. She asked me if she could take her green ticket down to the office to put it in the bin and get her stamp. When she returned, I had to take a second look at her because she had taken the stamp and stamped two paw prints over her eyes, and almost looked like a clown! It was too funny :)

At the end of the day, my cooperating teacher, Mrs. Carnes, was going over robust vocabulary with my students. One of the words was "gullible" and my teacher was explaining the meaning of the word to the class. Another teacher, Mrs. Wells, a GVSU math professor on sabbatical and helping out with math in Jenison elementary schools, was in the classroom as well. While Mrs. Carnes is talking about gullible, Mrs. Wells chimes in and says, "Mrs. Carnes, did you know that gullible is not in the dictionary?" Mrs. Carnes starts saying, "Really? Is it not really a word? Did they take it out?" I start to laugh because I knew what Mrs. Wells was doing. Mrs. Wells finally says, "Mrs. Carnes, you are being gullible, because you believed me!" Mrs. Carnes couldn't believe she fell for the joke and the ENTIRE class is just about rolling on the floor laughing! It was great!

Ok, I think that's enough stories for the day....I'm sure I'll have more tomorrow! Every day it's something new!