famous last words...

ok.... so I'm trying to (re)teach my kids that the best way to get my attention is to just sit and raise their hands quietly....   here's how today's version of that lesson went:

one of my boys was waving his hand calling Ms. Perry, Ms. Perry. Ms. Perry can I go to the bathroom and tuck myself in.... Ms. Perry? Ms. Perry?   He must have said my name about 50 times in the matter of 5 minutes. (mind you- at this point I have already heard my name about 1000 times in the last 3 days) 

I'm trying to cure several of them of this name calling habit by ignoring them until I get the desired response....

He finally gets the clue about 10 minutes after starting the whole name calling thing...  so I give it one more minute and call on him.....

Do you know why I was ignoring you????

His response???   Because you don't like me!   

I ask- how do you respond to that without laughing out loud and making him more upset with me than he already is???

needless to say- I told him this was not the case, and reminded him that quietly raising his hand will get my attention much faster...  and we all had a good laugh about it.

Be careful what you ask them...

Ok.... so we're reading a story in Reading... and one of the characters asked another "What would you be if you weren't a human?" ...  for this I was prepared.   I got answers that were unique (football, paper plane) expected (girls said cats or horses, boys said dogs) and random.

I was not prepared for the answers to the next question "What smell would you be?"  I asked them to think about it, but don't tell me... and then we moved on.  Well- within 5 minutes I had one little girl coming up to me and asking that I please tell the boy next to her to stop telling her what he smell he wants to be.  "He says he wants to be gas... you know... like a fart? ... so he can gas all the girls."   

Have you ever tried not to laugh when you have to reprimand someone? I couldn't do it- not with that answer.