A Week in the Life of my Classroom...

1 student who gives me signed papers (graded papers) with his mom's name on the top...in third grade print.

2 students who make a pact to help the other on their vocabulary tests.

1 student who cheats on his vocabularly test and gets caught.

1 student who doesn't cheat, even though he was the one who started the whole idea of a pact from what I can gather.

4 students who make inappropriate gestures with their bodies as cars go by the playground at recess.

1 student who doesn't do his homework and then proceeds to sit out in the hall (where I tell him to complete it) for over 20 minutes because he doesn't have a pencil and he just knows he's going to get more time taken off at recess because he doesn't have a pencil.

1 student who bites another student (accidentally, however that happens)

9 (out of 20) math students who don't bring back their signed papers.

15-20 cards pulled for various reasons on our behavior chart.


The week's aren't normally this ridiculous. I don't know what was wrong in the atmosphere this week but here's to hoping it finds its way out of my room this week. I realize that this is all NOTHING compared to what some teachers deal with on a daily basis...but for my little classroom world, this was excessive and it was not fun to deal with. At all.