First Grade Funnies

Today one of the funniest things happened.  For some reason my classroom has a bathroom in it, well really it is pretty much a little closet with a toilet and there is a utility sink right outside.  Well today one of the first graders started doing the potty dance so I let her go to the bathroom.  As soon as she shut the door she started singing.  I was trying to not to laugh but we could all hear her, it was really hard to go on with the lesson, so we kind of just stopped and waited for her to finish because she was quite loud.  She is also kind of short so she had to pull a piano bench up to the sink so that she could wash her hands and so that made more noise!  Good thing we were talking about animals and the sounds they make!

Random thoughts again

I've had a couple random thoughts lately.  The first one really intrigues me.  The Vice Principal at my "other school" is a really nice guy.  One thing I don't get about him is that his kids are home schooled.  How are you a vice principal of a school yet home school your kids?  Doesn't make any sense to me.

Another thing that I laugh at is the reality shows about beauty pageants.  The parents of these poor little girls are crazy.  You can tell they had a weird child hood and so they are trying to live through their daughters.  We just sit and laugh at them.  The thing that mostly creeps me out is at the end of the pageant before they crown the winners and the flaming gay host sings a cheesy pageant song to the girls.  What parents would do that it is so creepy.  Here is a spoof that some people have done.  I love it so much because it is so true!

Christmas Break

Christmas break is over.  I'm not too excited to go back to work in the morning, boo and especially because it is an all day training for stuff I won't ever use since I teach music and not reading.  The break has been nice.  This past week I went and saw the musical Annie with some of my cousins.  It was great and poor little Annie in her big solo, Tomorrow she had hiccups.  She did a great job singing through them and kept her composure very well.  They had a cardboard cutout of the progressive lady so I just had to get my picture with her.

 

Christmas Eve was a great night.  Last year it was interesting because Grandpa Riding was at a care facility so we didn't dinner like we normally do.  It was wonderful to have it back at Grandmas and do our annual Nativity.  They had all of the older cousins be Angels since everyone is growing up and it is traditionally done by the younger cousins.  It was fun though. 

 

 

A bunch of us posing with Grandma after the party.

  

Me and my Abigail Christmas morning.  She is adorable and I think I'm her favorite!

Winter Wonderland

My first concert went very well.  It was a very crazy day because I woke up with Pink Eye and I should not have gone to school that day but I had no choice, what would they have done without me?  I felt just fine but I looked like crap!  Luckily some of the wonderful ladies told me to rub lemon juice on my eyelids and she even had a lemon sitting in the fridge.  It took the itch away for a bit which was wonderful.  I got the stage looking as nice as I could for what I had.  Ahh the joys of working in the ghetto!  The family resource center which is run by parents decided to have a big all school potluck before the concert. It was a great success and I didn't have to worry about getting fast food in my ghetto neighborhood!  My eyes at this point were so red and puffy it looked like I had been crying all day.  Some of the teachers were asking me if I was ok, if my nerves were getting to me.  I told them I was fine and that I had pink eye.  They just laughed.  My assistant principal was like, you do know thats contagious right?  Haha yeah I know, but what was I supposed to do?  The concert went great.  There was a huge turnout.  I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and I think more showed up than they had planned.  One thing I need to work on is audience behavior.  They were horrible, it was so noisy the whole time.  I had everything mapped out but since more people showed up things didn't go as planned, but it still worked out just fine.  Everyone was pleased and the best part is that its over! 

Then as soon as we got home my dad and I went driving around to find an urgent care that was open so that I could get some drugs.  My eyes felt so much better after that.  They asked me if I knew if I had been in contact with anyone with pink eye.  I told them that I'm a teacher and that earlier that day one of the kids said "Ms. Jones, your eyes look just like mine did the other day when I had pink eye, that's why I wasn't here!"  It was splendid.  The joys of being a teacher.

During that next weekend I went on a day trip with my mom and dad to Snowflake to deliver flowers for a wedding.  It was a fun little trip, but so cold!  Snowflake is so windy it makes it even colder.  It was nice to see the snow and then go back to Mesa where we don't have the snow!

The last week of school before Christmas wasn't as crazy as I thought it would be.  The activity that I was doing with the older kids went better than I thought it would.  It made me so happy and it was something they could learn from!  I am now enjoying 2 weeks of bliss not having to drive to phoenix everyday!  I will post more of our lovely christmas adventures later.

December = craziness

December is here in full swing!  The craziness has already begun.  Tuesday Emilie and I made 2 delicious cakes to donate to the Mesa High Orchestra Dinner on Wednesday.  They turned out awesome and I hope they tasted as good as they look.  Wednesday was the delicious dinner and we enjoyed Outback, yum yum.  Thursday I went to institute and Friday I hung out with Linsday and caught up on drama in our lives!  Saturday my mom had gotten tickets to a free screening of Disney's new The Princess and the Frog.  It was so good!  Great story, great music great fun!  Can't wait till it comes out, will see it again.  My concert is on Thursday so I am in freak out mode.  I know it will all turn out fine.  The teachers have been very helpful and supportive, its been great, making my life easier.  They have let me know things that the other teacher had done in the past they they would do every year.  I don't want to break any traditions since they guy was there for 35 years!   There is a quick update, I will add more later, but its my bed time I have a super busy week!

A little catch up

 

October was a really fun month, from my amazing trip to Orlando to all the fun stuff for Halloween.  I carved a pumpkin for school, ahh the joys of being a teacher!

   

I really enjoyed my face painting from Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party.  She did just what I wanted, I was really sad to wash it off.  It would have been nasty if I slept in it.

 

I also enjoyed my Hallween costume.  The kids at school really didn't know what I was dressed up as. Ms Jones what is a flapper?  I bought the dress at Savers for $3 and then sewed on the fringe which cost me about $20.  When I decided I was going to be a flapper I was super excited to wear my awesome black heels with it.  They are kind of retro and I love them, super cute.  That is what went down the end of October.

I heart my ghetto kids! part 2

My students continue to say some of the funniest things.  Here is another installment of some of the greatest.

A couple of years ago my sister in law made me an amazing crystal necklace to christmas.  I love to wear it because it is so pretty.  My students like to ask me if it is real and are always telling me how pretty it is and how much they like it.  I replied to one student one time and said yes they are real.  They then told me that I should pawn it and get money for it.  I just had to laugh.  I would never pawn that necklace, I love it so much and I am not desperate for money right now.  They were like 10, how do they know you can pawn stuff and get money, I didn't know what pawn shops were until later.

One of the funniest stories happened yesterday.  So I have a cold right now.  One of my students told me not to get him sick, and I replied, "Well I'm not going to get you sick, you got me sick!"  They then tried to play the you are being racist card.  I told them I am defintely not racist, hello my niece is half mexican and my grandma was born in mexico.  I told the kids I would show them a picture of my niece.  One of the guys got really excited and then asked how old she is.  He was kind of disappointed to find out she is only 5.  I started laughing to myself when I realized why he asked her age.  No you will not go out with her, she is way too young for you!

Here is another story, this is a kind of sketchy one.  So my other school is on a dead end street inside of the durango curve of the i-17.  The past like 2 weeks there has been a bunch of cars parked on the street and I couldn't figure out what they were from.  I think I might have figured out it was some landscaping business and everyone would park there and they would get in trucks and leave to jobsites.  Well this week the cars are gone and the lot were all the landscape trucks were parked in the afternoon are gone.  The property is locked up and there is a for sale sign.  Does anyone else find this a little skecthy?  Illegal operation going on?  I do work in wondrous ghetto phoenix!

One more to make you laugh. Today I was teaching them a song for our concert and it is about caroling.  I asked if any of them had been caroling before.  They replied, no, you don't do that in this neighborhood, all you hear are gun shots.  I heart my ghetto kids!