first grade... nuff said

for the past few days my kids have been driving me bonkers. well not all of them but a few have just pushed me to my farthest point. as a teacher you have days when being positive is a struggle and the negative just seems to come out. at this point its hard to genuinely praise some kids when they are just on your last nerve and then some.

well i have to admit that there were 2 days that i just wanted to scream at a few of them and tell them to just STOP! but of course i didn't. so, i wasn't as smiley and happy with the class in general because these little boys were pushing my buttons! then it happened....

...it happened while we were doing calendar one morning. they had just been awful coming in and were noisy and just ugh. anyways... i was going over the word of the day with them and we were trying to have a discussion about what this word meant. and one of them was just yapping away and i almost lost it... i gave him the teacher look. he looked up at me and whispered "sorry" and tried to give me the pouty face. i wasn't having it. just then i heard it... a faint little toot exit his body...i think i'd scare the toot out of him... haha.

...normally i just keep going with whatever it is that we're doing as not to attraction attention to the passing of gas and not to embarrass the little one. and as a side note, you'd be surprised about how often this happens... let me tell you... A LOT!

sooooo i'm trying to hold on to my anger at this point and fought the urge to say something. but before i knew it a smile came across my lips and i just started to laugh. i tried so hard to keep from laughing. i tried to just keep going, but i kept getting choked up and finally i gave in. i just started laughing and i couldn't stop.

the anger melted away and i was just enjoying the moment. weird i know. but the rest of the day seemed to go smoothly after that. thank goodness for that moment. i'm glad that the frowning didn't continue and it was just the moment i needed to get over it all.