Last Day of School Recap

7:40 students arrive outta control
7:50 morning announcements
8:15 Chad puts glue in veronica's chair to make her stick to it.
8:16 Rodrigo grabs Stephanie's camera and starts taking pictures of himself.
8:17 Stephanie kicks Rodrigo and punches him.
8:18 Stephanie tattles on Rodrigo.
8:19 Rodrigo tattles on Stephanie.
8:20 yell at class that we are all about to sit in silence for the rest of the day
8:30 I make Chad walk to the office carrying the chair that is covered in glue. He cries the entire way.
8:45 talk to Principal about "appropriate punishment" for chad
8:50 decide that chad is to clean all of the chairs for punishment. awesome.
9:10 Kickball game
9:45 Ancillary time....I go to my room and do excessive paperwork.
10:30 eat Popsicles at the track
10:35-11:00 clean up Popsicle mess and break up ice-throwing fights. why???
11:00 go back to homeroom and clean
12:00 start movie
12:30 lunch
12:31 kids are outta control. parents show up and start passing out extra candy that they don't need and cake. why??
12:55 leave lunch early to maintain sanity.
1:00 finish movie
1:45 Rodrigo and Emily get in a fist fight over....nothing!!
2:35 kids leave. praise the LORD!!!

These are some of the notes I received from my students (and my own personal comments):

"Have a great summer. Thanks for the knowledge." (suck-up)

"Dear Ms. McGoldrick
Thank you for teaching me Reading and Social Studies." (as if I had a choice)

"Dear, Ms. McGoldrick
This year has been so much fun because of you. Your the best teacher I've ever had. Thank you for teaching me this year. I'm going to keep working hard when I go back to Japan this summer. I'll never forget my experience at America." (LOVE IT!! He even drew a picture of a baseball player! Best student ever!!!)

"Dear Ms. McGoldrick,
We were very fortunate to have you as Koji's teacher this year. He always told us how nice and patient you were with the kids and your kind disposition towards them. He has learned alot and has nice memories from his 4th grade. Have a wonderful summer!"
(kind disposition? patient? haha! I wish all parents were this nice. It helps that her son is perfect!)

As for gifts....I got the usual smelly candles, tacky lotions from Walmart, and gift cards (which I LOVE), and makeup!! Are they trying to tell me something?

Dragon Lady

All my students refer to my teaching partner, Christina, as Dragon Lady. They say that she breathes fire when she's angry. Here is a note I picked up today:

"I hate Dragon Lady because she is a b----. I hate her guts and she hates mine. She is very mean thats how she got her name dragon lady. Today we got to sit on a piece of tar. Other kids were talking alot during class. So what happened to all good kids got to go to track expect for me. I hate her so much she doesn't let me go to the....." (note ended when I took it up)

Actually, this might have been more of a diary entry. I still like the "50 things I hate about my teacher"note about me, but this is pretty great too. 5 more days of babysitting.

What the kids are writing about

This is from a note I confiscated from 2 of my best students who had been writing back and forth during my lesson:

"Stop being a M----- F-----"

"Stop being fat"

"Shut your face, n-----."

"You're not black so you can't say the "n" word, you fat piece of s---."

I was really mad when I took it up. Definitely could NOT read it aloud. But then went home and when I was reading it aloud to a friend, I started laughing hysterically.

Confession

Yesterday I had total meltdown. When most girls have a meltdown, they cry. I'm not very good at crying, so instead my pantry is emptied. Fortunately, all I had to eat was health food. I gorged on a box of flaxseed cookies and emptied my fridge of all the sugarfree pudding. I still felt guilty and ran 3.5 miles.

"Miss Walmart"

I'm not really sure what to say.....this is from the Walmart website and best explains it all.

"Teacher of the Year" Awards and Grants
Each year, every Wal-Mart store and SAM'S CLUB selects a local educator as its "Teacher of the Year," based on nominations from members of the community. Each store and club will give the award-winning teacher's school an $1,000 educational grant. The winning teacher receives a Teacher of the Year polo shirt and a Wal-Mart gift card worth $100 to buy classroom supplies. Local winning teachers are also considered for state and national "Teacher of the Year" Awards. Winning State Teachers of the Year receive a $10,000 educational grant for his or her school. State winners are automatically eligible to be chosen as National Teacher of the Year and receive a $25,000 educational grant for his or her school.

The Walmart off Kirkwood at Westheimer has picked me as their Teacher of the Year. My kids went officially "nuts" when the visitors came in. They also each got a box full of goodies. And by goodies I mean school supplies. I can't wait to rock my "Teacher of the Year" Walmart polo tomorrow. You can go to my school's website to read more about it. I'm still not sure whether to feel embarrassed or honored.

"i hate my life"

Gotta love the notes I collected today. I'll just leave you with the best ones:

"I hate my life. I'm not going to have anyone to play with this weekend."

"Is you my real friend?"

How could I forget to mention this??

How could I not mention this......as you know my dad is a pastor. And for the contemporary worship service, he has a punk rock band play. I mean they play christian music, but they tour on the side. They are totally this emo-punk rawk group. So at Easter my dad was dropping names of bands and punk music....as if he knew what he was talking about!! Soooo embarrassing!! See, now this is why he is only introduced to a small group of very close friends who I know won't reject me once they meet him.

It's really not my dad's fault that he likes them. It is the bands fault for letting my dad hang out wtih them. That needs to stop right now.

p.s. The band's name is "Sam's the Hero". They used to be called "Sons of Noah". I think you can download their stuff on itunes just to get a taste of the contemporary service.

How do y'all talk?

I'm stealing this from Emily's blog. Take this Quiz.

My results were "95% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?"