When Your Students Find Out About Your Blog...

They do silly things to get on the blog! Naturally...

So I have this one girl in my class this year who was in my class last year, also. She is a great kid, and she likes to be silly. Well, last year we experienced "The Nutella Incident of 2014" (not to be confused with the Frosting War of 2014). In this incident, I was innocently teaching at the white board when all of the sudden, I turn around just in time to see a jar of Nutella fly across the room.

Then, no more Nutella was allowed in my room.

Fast forward to this year. The girl of whom I'm speaking was a part of "The Nutella Incident of 2014" and she decided that she hadn't been on my blog in a while. She walks into my room, asks if I still have this blog, and proceeds to pull out a jar of Hershey's Spread (which is NOT Nutella, and so allowed, according to her). She then tosses it in the air and catches it while running around the room and saying, "Whoooo!"

Lest you think we do no learning whatsoever, I must say this was before the bell rang.

Eventually she put the jar away and class went on. And now I'm posting about it here.

Other exciting incidents at school this week include the Happening that some of my 6th graders did. For those who don't know, a Happening is a theatrical event that encourages audience participation, often by not informing the audience that something was staged and attempting to get them to react to the event as if it were real.

So, my students wrote a script for their Happening whereby they were give a presentation in front of the middle school at lunch about "anti-bullying." They'd previously painted a poster that said "No Bullying" and written a script of this presentation. The exciting part was at the end, however, when the script called for them to throw paint on each other! Boy did the kids in the lunchroom laugh! We, the adults, pretended to be mad and I think about 1/2 the kids think it was real.

All-in-all, it went pretty well. The clean up took a little longer than I expected, but other than that, it was rather fun.

All that to say, children are interesting creatures.

And now I must go because my dog is acting like a cat and sitting in my face while I'm trying to type this...just another interesting creature.