Anecdotally speaking
Mar. 23rd, 2006 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaSo. Last week I was at school, sitting at the circulation desk, which is approximately three feet from the computers. A class of grade fives are at said computers. It's getting a little noisy, and then one kid yells, and falls off his stool. The teacher goes over to investigate.
The kid had stumbled across some inappropriate images. The class was working on creative writing. He'd looked up the spelling of a word. On google. The word?
Bazookas.
Meanwhile, over at my other school... yesterday at lunch, the principal comes on the PA to tell us several students have an announcement. And she does not sound like her usual cheerful self. Three of the grade three girls apologize for breaking the sink in the girls' bathroom.
They were standing on it. To reach the exposed pipes above and swing on them.
One of the kindergarten teachers comments that their bathroom privileges should be restricted--they can only go with someone else. Which is what she had to do with one of her kids, after he licked the urinal.
Some days, I just laugh and laugh.
Today, I booktalked So You Want to be a Wizard (which I have loved for years and years) to the grade fours, and had eight kids all clamouring for it afterwards.
With the younger kids, I read Meet Wild Boars by Meg Rosoff. Yes, that Meg Rosoff. Tusk, tusk, tusk. Hee.
But when all is said and done, I am exhausted right now. One more day, and then it's spring break! And I will finally have the time and energy to go through some of these bookmarks and open tabs and post some more links and recs.
But for now, I am going to scoop up a cat and go to bed.
The kid had stumbled across some inappropriate images. The class was working on creative writing. He'd looked up the spelling of a word. On google. The word?
Bazookas.
Meanwhile, over at my other school... yesterday at lunch, the principal comes on the PA to tell us several students have an announcement. And she does not sound like her usual cheerful self. Three of the grade three girls apologize for breaking the sink in the girls' bathroom.
They were standing on it. To reach the exposed pipes above and swing on them.
One of the kindergarten teachers comments that their bathroom privileges should be restricted--they can only go with someone else. Which is what she had to do with one of her kids, after he licked the urinal.
Some days, I just laugh and laugh.
Today, I booktalked So You Want to be a Wizard (which I have loved for years and years) to the grade fours, and had eight kids all clamouring for it afterwards.
With the younger kids, I read Meet Wild Boars by Meg Rosoff. Yes, that Meg Rosoff. Tusk, tusk, tusk. Hee.
But when all is said and done, I am exhausted right now. One more day, and then it's spring break! And I will finally have the time and energy to go through some of these bookmarks and open tabs and post some more links and recs.
But for now, I am going to scoop up a cat and go to bed.
