Trying to do better...

Well, after finding out that I've upset the masses by not keeping my blog updated (sorry Tiffany!), I guess I had better put a new post up. The last few weeks of school have been quite fun, as I had hoped. I think I've finally got the first names of the kids down, and have moved onto to trying to get last names down. I told the kids to be kind if I messed up their names unless I totally butchered their names. "For an example," I said, "if your name is Kylie and I call you Kayleigh, that's close enough for you to remind me kindly that I called you by the wrong name. If however, I call you something ridiculous, then you have every right to call me Mr. Wilson, or Mr. Watkins." I had a student a few years ago who came up to me to ask a question about math. I was working at my desk, and he walked up and said, "Grandma..." I looked at him and said, "GRANDMA!? If I look or sound anything like your grandma, I'm afraid that I wouldn't really enjoy meeting her!" We all laughed, but it will probably forever be one of the strangest things I've ever been accidentally called. I have gotten the accidental "Dad" name from some of the kids, but grandma!?
We've done some pretty exciting things in class, like making Alka Seltzer rockets and Oobleck and watching Mythbusters to learn about the scientific method (you gotta watch this clip, it's great!!). It's been quite fun and I have a lot more exciting things in store, which means that I should hopefully have more funny school related stories to come!
Another note of interest would be to check out the Wallace Baby Blog that we'll try to keep updated as much as possible, maybe even while we're at the hospital, we'll see.

Funny school related story of this week:
This one actually comes from one of our Language Arts teachers at school. She was trying to talk to her class about pronouns and choosing appropriate pronouns for use in sentences. So, off the top of her head she decides to create an example sentence. She tells the students, "You want to make sure that your sentences make sense, so you wouldn't want to say to someone, 'The squirrel sat in the tree and ate their nuts.'" At which point the boys in class start laughing. She's flustered but presses on and says, "No, you wouldn't want to say that. You'd want to correctly say, 'The squirrel sat in the tree and ate HIS nuts.'" She said that class was pretty much over at that point...can't imagine why!

I'll write to you again soon!

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