Dear Third Grade Students...where have i failed you

It snowed... snow is wet... snow is wet and cold....
Don't slide down the slide that is covered with wet and cold snow or you will be a very wet and cold snow covered person....



oh and to the girl in my class that wrote "those pants make your but look bigger than a elafant" and "Insert name here, I hat you! becuse you are a pig!".... and broke all the pencils in the poor girl's desk:

1. learn how to spell if you are going to write mean notes
2. dont write mean notes to poor girls who have self esteem issues as it is..
3. dont deny writing it when YOU SIGNED your name and you are the only kid in my class who writes her "b's" backwards
4. you get to spend recess with me now... lucky lucky me

I caught you... thanks you made my day

so.... note writing in third grade is the thing to do. I have threatened my kids that if they are caught writing or reading a note I get to read it.
This afternoon when we were working on our valentine stories for writing, I caught one of my girl's getting up to "sharpen her pencil." I watched her as she took the long way the sharpener and and drop a note off at a boy's desk. I got up and grabbed the note before he could read it.(secretly i love reading their notes). She about died when she saw me grabbed it. I opened the note and it was your basic, "i like you note" except one line

"You are my internal organs. AKA my heart"

that is m new favorite line

Some days I love third grade

It is the end of the world

Most of the time my kids (students) LOVE specialty (music, art, pe, computers) ... this week they are in PE. usually their favorite... BUT for the month of Feb ( the month of "love") they are learning dancing... meaning they have to dance with the oppisite sex... This is apparently a big deal since it is the ONLY thing that they can talk about and all BEG to wash their hands after PE is finished. Even after they wash their hands, when we get back to class they all head straight for the hand sanitizer.. LOVE IT


also i had my evaluation done today by the principal.. i being a GENIUS decided to tell the kids that he was here to watch them so he could decide who could be together in fourth grade next year. Meaning if they were caught talking to a friend, they would not be in the same class next year. my plan worked!