Fridays are Odd

Fridays are always odd days at school. We never know exactly what's going to happen...maybe there will be an assembly, maybe there will be a fire drill, maybe Hannah Montana will show up and help us play a game with doughnuts...Fridays are unpredictable. So, today being Friday, I was ready for the unpredictability to ensue...which I guess would make it predictable, right?

To add to the craziness of this Friday, my class was on Safety Patrol. Safety Patrol is an optional before and after school thing where basically 6th graders stand watch and make sure that kids stay outside.

This week, 6th grade teachers also have bus duty so I spent 25 minutes outside making sure kids are being appropriate and respectful. And I came into my class about 5 minutes after my students.

I came into many interesting sights and stories.

1. Another teacher tells me as she was walking back to her classroom from the office she sees two of my (huge) 6th graders being beat up by a 1st grader. Classic. I guess the little girl was walking through the halls before school. My boys told her she had to go outside. She said, "I will if you just move." They said, "No, you need to turn around and go out your doors." She responded with a punch to the gut of one of my boys and then the shin kicking began. Priceless. I wish I could have seen it. **Only 6th grader pride was injured in this story.**
   
2. As I walk into my room, one student is sitting quietly in his chair. "Ahhh, bliss," I think. Then I look to his head and realize that he had his shoe sitting on his head. Ok, completely normal. **This is completely normal because I make my students give me a shoe if they need to borrow a pencil. I only do this because I don't have the money to continue to keep buying pencils for all my kids and this way I always get my pencils back because no one will leave school without their shoe...genius!**
3. Then I get bombarded by JD. JD is a special, funny child. She is the one who wrote this gem. JD: "Miss J. I've had a day full of bad luck already!" "Oh, really JD? What's happened?" "Well, it started with seeing an owl." "I didn't know owls were bad luck." "They are if you hear two hoots." "Oh. Ok. What else happened?" "Then a black cat crossed my path and a black cloud has been following me for a week." I look around only to see blue skies. Ok, maybe she's talking figuratively? "And I ran into S., my arch nemesis." I was laughing so hard I had to walk away because I didn't want her to think I was laughing at her.

Yippee for Fridays!