Another funny...

So the question on the test yesterday was how many inches are in a foot. My third grade girl proceeds to use the ruler in front of her and then measure her foot! It kinda made me chuckle and just wish she understood the question. However her foot was 8 inches long...which is kinda scary because that was one of the answers on the test. :-)

Funny

Me: Okay today class we are going to write halloween stories to enter into a contest

(time elapses)

third grader: can i use what is in this book?

Me: no, it needs to be an original idea that you thought of on your own

third grader: oooohhhh okaaaaaayyyyyyy, I will only use half of what was written (then sits back down)

Okay so this made me chuckle, thought I would share :-)

Ironic

On Thursday as I was getting ready to talk about St. Francis, patron saint of all of God's creatures, my third grader in the back row raises her hand and says there is a spider crawling around on the bullentin board two feet away from me. I look over and sure enough here is this tanish colored spider with white spots crawling around next to me! Well I cannot kill the dang thing, I'm teaching about St. Francis! So I thought maybe I could leave it alone and it would crawl back up. Well dummy me reminded myself that I am teaching third graders and they are interested in anything that moves. So they are shouting and wiggling around in their seats. My one "special" student, is yelling out you cannot kill it!! So I calmly grab a paper cup that I have and shoo the spider into the cup. I then make a beeline for my door because it is right next to the back doors where I safely deposit the spider outside. My third graders then remark that they will see the spider at recess. Gee I love kids! So as you can see I cannot kill one of God's creatures on the day that I am teaching about the patron saint of God's creatures! It just made me chuckle!!

Stupid ear!

Since last Saturday my ear has been bothering me. Granted this is the ear that has always given me problems since I was young. I had a tube placed back into my ear in April and viola I can hear again! So when it started acting up again I blamed it on the weather because any little shift in the weather and my head goes crazy. Well a week later it is still the same and plus the dang tube fell out of my ear on Friday night. I am quite upset by this. It was not even in there five months and the one I had before was in for about 10 years! I am still paying for the dang surgery to put the blasted thing in! My father, the mechanic, offered to put it back in and explained that my brother, also a mechanic, is certified! How funny are they? So now I have fluid shloshing around in my ear everytime I turn my head. I told my hubby it sounds like I am a boat. So now I need to call the ear-nose-throat doctor and pray for an appointment because it takes about three months to be seen in this place. Maybe I will go to the urgent care center today and get something to clear up the fluid because I don't know how much more of this I can take!

Happy Labor Day!

So now that two and a half weeks of school has passed I am now starting to get ahold of teaching third grade. I thought I wouldn't like being with my students all day long but we are so busy during the school day that I wish that I had them more! I am also starting to believe that out of my class of 14 students that 10 are ADHD and so that makes for a loud and very busy classroom. However they are listening to a point however I need to find some suitable type of discipline for them. I cannot keep yelling, I hate yelling! I however was very grateful for this long weekend! I just need to get my butt in gear and start their papers from Friday and try to enter my grades into the computer. I say try because we went to a new grade program and it is very tempermental. So we shall see if the computer will cooperate.

I did get a few things done this weekend. Saturday I cleaned and then cleaned some more. I don't think the house has had that good of cleaning since I left for Europe. So it is good to have a clean house only if it means for a couple of weeks. The cats are so dang hairy, but then again they are cats.

On Sunday, I went out to Best Buy and we finally bought our new tv. It is a Sony 40' LCD flat panel television. I had won some money from the AC Neilson Homescan Consumer group to which I belong and so we earmarked it for the tv, it also helped that Best Buy is running a special of no interest for 36 months. So because of this great sale and some extra money our living room looks so much bigger! I am very pleased with the tv, I had my brother come over last night and figure out the wiring because the VCR wouldn't work and my hubby needs it to watch his tapes. So Tony figured out the back of the tv and got us our HD channels so football will look really nice starting next week. Hubby is very happy for this reason. We only now have to get rid of the 36' big monster and our stand. So right now the big monster is sitting in between the living room and the dining room because it is so gosh darn heavy and the stand is taking up our front porch area. I think we are going to see if our friend would like it because he is moving into a house and hubby and I just want it gone.

It was so nice to sleep in today! I had some errands to run and find a new type of furniture that would hold our DVD's and I found a nice piece of furniture at Target for $60. So when I get paid again I will go back and get another one for the rest of our tapes and video games. But when I got home Jay wasn't home, which I thought was really odd because he doesn't go anywhere. Well it turns out that his mom fell off her back step at home and did something to her ankle. So he drove over there and then took her to the ER where she told him to go home and wait for her to call to pick her up. Well that was 3 hours ago. I just talked to my mom and she thinks that they are probably just beginning to see her. So hopefully her ankle is just badly sprained and not broken. But we will soon find out.

I did also make cookies today and they are very yummy! They are chewy granola cookies and so I think that they are semi-good for me! So now I am off to grade papers and tackle that grade program! Lucky me!!!