new stories from 3rd grade

So this year is more than half way over and I have not done a single post about my class this year... to begin with.... there are 20 boys and 7 girls.... that right there should be all I have to say about my class and let your imagination do the rest...but for your entertainment I will continue...

1. There is one boy in my class who has been banished to have his desk right next to my desk to try and keep him under control- today he has REALLY bad gas... who is being punished now...

2. Third graders have a lot of imagination and use that to create new games to play... apparently the game of tag needed to be reinvented..

- ware wolf and vampires * included kids bringing little sacs of garlic to school

- 'what' game: persons it calls out your name and if you answer 'what' you are it * i have been it a few times....

- Cheese touch * i now hate the book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and have been known to say "No cheese touching in here!" a few times a day


3. I also have a boy in my class who at a last desperate attempt to get him to stay in his seat and do his work.. we have him sitting on an exercise ball-

4. The lady I teach with shared this story with me...
We have a set of twins in our class this year and about a month ago a little boy in our class stopped them in the lunch line and informed them that they looked a lot alike.. somehow i feel that i am failing him...

5. We do a lot of shared writing in our class (that is where we all write a story/paragraph together) and because of the fact our boys out number our girls by more than half our stories ALWAYS end up about zombies and dead things... one day when we were working on descriptive sentences we ended up with the following on the board :

The moshed, dead, zombie cat, with a missing eye ball, barked like a starving, angry pit bull.

Just as I was putting the period on the board the principal walked in.. needless to say, I had some explaining to do....

6. Yesterday there was a sub for the morning half--her suggestion to me was to let the kids out every half hour to run around the play ground...

This year has been tons of fun-- and interesting and my kids really do keep my on my toes as far as not being able to just coast by this year- but I love it and wouldn't change classes if I could ....just maybe switch out a few kids ;)

Chuckie Cheese

This last Saturday we took Korbin to Chuckie Cheese for the first time. We didn't tell him where we were going and the second we entered the parking lot he had a cow. It was so fun to watch. Once we got inside it was complete chaos... as all kid places are. He and Russ had fun playing the games. Poor quinn will have wait till he is big enough to hold his own against the 2 million kids running wild.....

MY lil boy is in SunBeams....

How is my little boy old enough to be a Sun Beam???

Wasn't it just yesterday I was dealing with ... that...??

New Years

Our New Years was spent ringing it is with some good friends. We had fish tacos and cheese stuffed crust pizza. Quinn (finally) passed out just before 11 and korbin decided to stay awake with us adults.

As far as New Years Goals go:

Quinn:

1. learn how to use REAL words to ask for things instead of pointing and shrieking

2. Learn how to share with Korbin

3. Make it through ALL three meetings of church W/O a nap.....

Korbin

1: Start Preschool this February

2. Learn how to share with Quinn

3. Learn how to swim

Mary:

1. Run a 1/2 marathon WITH ALYSE ;)

2. keep working on that whole not being largo thing...

Russ:

1. Making Mary happy by doing ANYTHING that she wants ;)

Christmas part 3

For Christmas part III: we loaded up and flew to Washugal Washington to visit Russell's side of the family. This meant the first airplane ride for the boys... it went.... as expected... the plane was delayed going out due to the toilets being broken-- allowing us to burn through all forms of entertainment BEFORE the actual plane ride... once we boarded the plane things were somewhat okay..other than having to pass Quinn back and forth every ten min or so to keep the kid entertained... Korbin was nice enough to accidentally spill his entire glass of complementary OJ ALL over my lap within the first fifteen min of takeoff...( we skipped drinks on the ride home..lesson learned..)

Once we got to russ's parent's house we were able to hang with the fam and have amazingly delicious food. Russ;s mom has 9000 chickens that Korbin had a blast helping collect eggs from and chase around. It was a fun trip and it will be nice to go back sometime to see what it is like when it is not raining ;)

Christmas part 2

For part II of Christmas we loaded up the car and drove home to have Christmas Day at our own home. We started out having Christmas Eve dinner with Heather and Mike- and went to a really cool light show in PG.

Christmas morning we woke up with Korbin RACING into our room telling us it was "wake up time!" and he wanted to see if Santa ate his brownie. He had a blast Christmas morning ripping open any present he could get his hands on while Quinn tried to keep up. It was a really good Christmas and Russ definitely made me feel loved with the gifts he gave me ;)-

Christmas part 1

For Christmas Part I: We (everyone except Russ who had to work -sucker-) went down the week before Christmas to spend so time with my side of the family. Korbin has a blast with his cousin, Ahna. Quinn had to deal with not getting all the attention because of his EQUALLY as cute cousin Toby...