I Hope They Never Organize

If I ask students to please not throw/wrinkle/step on on books/games/supplies because they are mine, they are ambivalent. 

If I ask students to please not throw/wrinkle/step on on books/games/supplies because they are Charlie's, (They know he is in kindergarten too.), they immediately stop and apologize. 

You can't tell me there is not a Kindergarten street code.

I had this conversation with my class today:


Student: I'm stupid.
Me: I don't ever want to hear you say that. You are not stupid. And besides, I only teach smart kids.
Student: You think I'm smart?
Me: Of course. Like I said, I only teach smart kids.

The best part was that I then saw other students turn to their classmates and say, "I'm smart!"


There is a pretty famous teaching story that tells about a teacher who, after getting her new class's information, was thrilled to discover that all of her students had high IQs.  After each of their names, was a number, between 120-150.

The year goes on, and the principal is thrilled with the progress the students had made. He has a meeting with the teacher and asked her how she has managed to get the lowest kids to make such progress. She was surprised at his question, since all of her students had such high IQs. She showed him the paper with the names and numbers. He said, "Those aren't their IQs. Those are their locker numbers. "

Plan B

No more food network shows for Charlie. His request for breakfast was a castle made out of cubed fruit and toothpicks. "First, we will cut them into squares and use sticks to build it." 

Luckily for me, he settled for fruit stuck on a chopstick.

Career Advice

Charlie: What's wrong?

Me: My job wears me out. 

Charlie: Tell the kids to stop tattling and be nice. Then sit in your chair and relax. 

In The Sexist, But Awesome Category. . .

We were going over the rules in Charlie's classroom, and he decided that we needed to have rules for the house too.

Charlie: Rule number one, protect your mom.
Me: That's sweet, but Dad doesn't need protection?
Charlie: No, he can fight the bad guys, but you are a princess.

Isaiah's Birthday Party

They made Ironman mini cakes.

Charlie took the decorating very seriously. 

This was a cute gift that Isaiah got. It came with a play mat and tiny Planes figures. It would be great to take on a trip.