another peek into my classroom

on "wacky hair day" one of my students came to school with bright red hair dyed with kool-aid. he approached me with a discouraged look on his face, shoulders down and slightly annoyed and said, "mrs. watt, people keep trying to taste my head." as i looked up i see several girls shrugging their shoulders, huge grins, giggling, their fingers wiggling in the air to show their dyed red tips.

a very common conversation i hear in room 125:

max: "bobby, you're tattling."

bobby: "no i am not. i'm just telling."

max: "that's tattling."

bobby: "NO, i am NOT. (some huffing and puffing, hand shoots up in the air) i'm telling on you for calling me a tattletaler."

little boy with a smirk on his face: "Mrs. Watt, i just almost threw up in my mouth."

another little boy to a teacher who gave a somewhat boring lesson in our room, interrupting the lesson and asking in all innocent earnestness: "is it time for you to go yet?"

another little boy interrupting journal share time by loudly whispering to me, "mrs. watt, i went poop in the bathroom and washed my bottom all by myself!"