Actual Things I Said (2)

Actual Things I Said In My Classroom (2)

"Please do not pee in the trash can."

"You are grounded from using my markers because you drew a giant penis on the back of B's shirt."

[said with 0% sarcasm] "You can do this. You can. You do hard things all of the time.  Remember yesterday when you wrote your name on your paper before I told you to? That was excellent."

"Let's set a goal tomorrow to go 50 minutes without going to the bathroom."

"Excuse me, please don't do cartwheels in the hallway."

"Listen. I had a handful of chocolate covered almonds for lunch and that's all I've eaten so far today, so it's really not a good idea to get sassy with me."

Click below to see past posts of actual things I said in my classroom.
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Just Read This

Just do it. It's not written by me, it's written by an English teacher (which is obvious, because it's eloquent and beautiful), but it speaks to my heart:

http://www.loveteachblog.com/2015/04/what-i-wish-i-could-tell-them-about.html

3 Reasons Why Spring Break Is Actually The Worst

I know, I know. I'm a huge brat if I complain about the 5 day weekend we just had for Spring Break. When I tell my non-teacher friends that I am on spring break they all tell me how jealous they are and how they wish they were a teacher.

Here's the thing though: spring break is actually the worst.  Here are 3 reasons why:

1. It's such a tease.
Summer is so close. We can all feel it in the air and in our restless bodies.  We have had countdowns in our brains since Christmas break and we literally cannot wait.  Spring Break is the worst because it shows us what we have to look forward to.  It gives us just a tiny taste of what our lives will be like in just a short two months and then it heartlessly rips that taste away from us so that we spend the next two months cooped up inside the classroom knowing exactly what kind of paradise we are missing outside.

2. Students forget everything.
And I do mean everything.  Spring Break is the worst because students come back from the break acting like they haven't seen their friends in 1,000 years, and they never even learned how to sit in a chair, let alone how to write an exponential equation.  My classroom has been a complete joke the last few days of me trying desperately to remind the students that there are things in their brain that they need to use for at least two more months. Then they can completely forget those things and it can be their 10th grade teacher's problem.

3. My sleep schedule is completely thrown off.
I actually really like staying up late.  This is a fact that I forget in the winter when I literally am in bed by 9:30 (or sometimes 8:30...) every night.  Spring Break is the worst because I suddenly have the freedom to stay up and extra two hours and make up for it with a lovely nap the next day.  Now my poor brain is confused about when my bedtime is and it won't let me go to sleep.  It says to me "Yes, you really can watch the next episode of "Brain Games".  You're not tired at all." and then three episodes and a few hours of sleep later I can't get up for school in the morning.

There you have it. Sorry for being a complaining complainer, but it's the truth. I should probably also tell you that I went to Seattle over Spring Break to visit my sister and it was amazing and so fun and I'm so glad I had a Spring Break so I could do that, but complaining makes for more interesting blog posts, right?