Sunday, August 4, 2013

Where it all started


Quickly into my first year of teaching I noticed something.  Kids are funny.  Ok, so it wasn’t completely new information, but after I accumulated a couple stories and shared them I kept getting the same question.  Are you writing these down?  Yes, I would tell them, and it wasn’t a lie.  I did write them down…on stickies or the back of a worksheet, whatever paper I had lying around when the perfect humorous moment presented itself.  Well, I decided to gather them all in a blog.  Then, they are all written down somewhere, other than on the back of last week’s math test.  As a new school year begins, I’m beginning the journey of compiling them all in one place.  Since my 2013-2014 students haven't made their entrances yet, I’ll begin this blog with a classic flashback.  I’ll give you a hint.  It ends with a bird flying around my classroom.

Any teachers out there can probably relate to the naivety of being a first year teacher.  I was no different.  On this particular day, I noticed a group of students kept hovering around one of my student’s backpacks.  I asked what was in there and was told a bird.  The students continued to tell me it was fake and being a teacher with a million and other things to worry about, I dismissed it.  I can hear all you teachers yelling at me now.  Stop!  Check it!  Well, I didn’t.

So time went on and so did the bird issue until I had enough and needed to see the fake bird myself.  The little girl pulled it out of her backpack, held it in front of my face, and kept insisting it was fake.  Now if fake birds didn’t breath and have real feathers, yes it would have been fake. Clearly, this bird was not. Caught in the lie, the little girl was sent to let it go outside, but she didn’t quite make it all the way.  I don’t know if the bird knew the attention of twenty-six first graders was about to end, but it tried to make a run for it…and then, a bird flew around my classroom.
 
Have you ever had any animals in your classroom?

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