notes from my teaching log

so i just keep a record of what happens in my classes for my own sake, no one else. and here is a review of my morning from today.....

well my first class of the day was rabbit class - the youngest kids at the school. always a tough act. well we sang some songs and the whole time harry - this one tiny kid with a serious mullet - kept running up and hitting me. i dont know maliciously maybe just for attention. but i would be talking and he would just run up to me and hit me and then run and sit back down. then of course about 3 other kids would follow suit. so i told him, STOP and SIT DOWN! very meanly i might add. well it would just be totally sporatic. im finishing class - i start singing the goodbye song and all of a sudden he just runs up to me and starts pounding on me with both fists....i was like, Oh my God? what are you doing!?!? so i grab him and he immediately lets his legs go out from under him and i grab his chair and drag them both to the corner and attempt to put him in it. granted this is while classes are changing so somehow in the middle of this yanny teacher sees from the window what is happening and jumps in to help me get harry in his seat not knowing why i am putting him there. then rabbit teacher returns and i am still in shock and all the kids are rattling off in korean their version of the story. needless to say this story ends with harry crying and saying im sorry amber teacher as rabbit teacher holds her cell phone out in front of him threatening to call his mom. i leave in shock.
at lunch time when we return to rabbit class to grab some food kevin one of the other kids (who just apologized to me last week for hitting me) says that harry apologized so are you still angry? no its ok. i mean even harry was smiling at me and waving to me. so either he's psychotic and was like messing with my head and really wants to kill me or he has no idea about anything. maybe i watch too much law and order svu ....in this case i was definitely more shocked then anything else...what brought this on? maybe im naive but i dont think it was malicious just wacky. maybe its the weather...

well after rabbit tiger class goes great. then lion class. which was going very well...until we tried to line up to go back to lion class. aurora has broken her finger and has a metal cast on her pinky with some athletic tape. well i dont know what happened....i told them to line up so of course they all run and aurora falls down and terry trips over her becuase he is running and her cast comes off her finger and she starts wailing! so i scoop her up and run to the lion teacher...ohmygod! why? why? so i think lion could tell from my face that i was just like in shock...and shes like, amber its ok...its ok. as i watch her rewrap the finger. she even tells aurora - tell amber teacher, im ok.

but is amber teacher ok?

and just to add on to all this last week one of the rabbit kids while "dancing " to one of my songs - which in that class dance means run around like your rabid - either he got punched or fell but he ended up with a black eye. how the hell does this happen in my class? and if anyone wants to say its due to my teaching....welll



shut up.